A history of Israel from the rise of Zionism to our time
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| Language: | English |
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New York
Alfred A.Knoff
2001
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| Edition: | Second edition, revised and updated |
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Table of Contents:
- Rise of Jewish nationalism
- Beginning of the return
- Herzl and the rise of political Zionism
- Growth of the Yishuv
- Balfour declaration
- Establishment of the mandate
- Building the Jewish national home
- Seeds of Arab-Jewish confrontation
- Britain repudiates the Jewish national home
- Palestine in World War II
- Yishuv repudiates the mandate
- Birth of Israel
- War of independence
- Growth of Israeli republic
- Ingathering and the struggle for economic survival
- Search for peace and security
- Sinai and Suez
- Years of economic and social growth
- Decade of political and diplomatic achievement
- Cultural and ideological currents
- Six-Day War
- Israel as empire
- Israel and world Jewry
- War of the Day of Judgment
- Aftermath of an earthquake
- Likud era begins
- Accommodation with Egypt
- Romantic nationalism and realpolitik
- Revisionism at the apogee
- Israel in Lebanon
- Crisis of Israeli spirit, of diaspora loyalty
- Era of unity governments
- Wages of immobilism
- Tormented road to peace
- Mottled landscape, an appraisal at half century.