Abstract
This chapter is a part of ongoing research which examines the way in which crusade history and its material culture, which have no clear Jewish identification, were perceived, understood, interpreted and used in Zionist popular and scholarly writing in the early years of the Zionist movement. It shows the changing perception of Zionist writers to the crusader castle of ‘Athlit, from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s; that is, the period starting with the first Zionist settlement in Palestine to the end of the British mandate and the eve of the creation of the state of Israel. The chapter aims to study changing patterns of perception and interpretation of the castle and its material remains. The Zionism-crusade analogy and Joshua Prawer's work are the main approaches from which scholars have studied the topic of historical parallelism between the crusades and Zionism in recent decades.
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