Israel : a concise history of a nation reborn /
Presenting a brief but thorough account of the cultural, economic and political history of the state of Israel, a public intellectual sheds light on the past of this complex nation, one rife with conflict, so that readers can understand its future. --Publisher's description
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| Format: | Manuscript Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- A grand human story
- Poetry and politics : the Jewish nation seeks a home
- Some spot of a native land
- A conversation, not an ideology : Zionist divisions at the turn of the century
- From a dream to glimmers of reality
- The Balfour Declaration : the empire endorses the state
- Nowhere to go, even if they could leave
- The Yishuv resists the British, the Arabs battle partition
- Independence : the state is born
- From dreams of a state to the reality of statehood
- Israel enters the international arena
- Israel confronts the Holocaust
- Six days of war change a country forever
- The burden of occupation
- Yom Kippur War : the "conception" crashes
- Revolution within the revolution : the rise and revenge of Israel's political right
- Taking a page from the Zionists : the rise of Palestinian nationalism
- The peace process stalls
- A Jewish renaissance in the Jewish state
- A century after Balfour-- "A national home for the Jewish people"
- Appendix A. Glossary of people mentioned
- Appendix B. Glossary of non-English terms
- Appendix C. Israel's Declaration of Independence
- Appendix D. Israeli prime ministers and the American and Israeli presidents with whom they worked
- Appendix E. Israeli political parties and their changing balance of power