The history of Israel
by ebrary, Inc, Blumberg, Arnold
fromGreenwood histories of the modern nations
by ebrary, Inc, Blumberg, Arnold
fromGreenwood histories of the modern nations
Traces the history of Israel, detailing such events as the beginnings of Zionism, the two decades of growth, the 1967 Six Day War and the six-year aftermath, the Likud revolution of 1977-83, and the peace process of 1992-96.
Traces the history of Israel, detailing such events as the beginnings of Zionism, the two decades of growth, the 1967 Six Day War and the six-year aftermath, the Likud revolution of 1977-83, and the peace process of 1992-96.
This pioneering handbook is presenting Israel in its intellectual controversies regarding Zionism, the making of the State of Israel and contemporary Israeli society. In more than a dozen of thematic sections, a wide range of perspectives is covered. Among the debated key topics…
Details Churchill's friendship with individual Jews, especially Chaim Weizmann, and, more importantly, his Zionism, from his support for the implementation of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 through the establishment of the Jewish state. Churchill was consistent in this regard n…
[This book offers an] insightful history of Churchill's lifelong commitment - both public and private - to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism. Winston Churchill was a young man in 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the Frenc…
This book examines an often-neglected aspect of the British leader's career: his relationship to Jews and Jewish issues. Drawing on a treasure trove of primary documents, Gilbert shows how Churchill grew beyond the kind of friendship with individual British Jews that his father …
"In this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel. The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Is…
"Theodor Herzl had been a successful Viennese journalist and a less successful playwright with no political ambitions. That changed in 1896, when he published The Jewish State. In response to the wide resonance that the book received, Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in…
"Theodor Herzl, a successful Viennese journalist, and Paris correspondent, followed the Dreyfus Affair, a notorious anti-Semitic incident in which a French Jewish army captain was falsely convicted of spying for Germany, which caused him to reject his early ideas regarding Jewis…