Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided A Nation - Softcover

Halevi, Yossi Klein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060545771 ISBN 13: 9780060545772

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2020

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"As a work of political, cultural, and religious history, Like Dreamers is a triumph."--Jewish Voice

"Yossi Klein Halevi's brilliant account of Israel's left-right divide is a spellbinding story of people's evolving views and of conquest's mixed blessings."--American Jewish World News

"Powerful.... a textured, beautifully written narrative.... There is much to admire in this book, especially Mr. Halevi's skill at getting inside the hearts and minds of these seven men."--Ethan Bronner, New York Times

"Mr. Halevi's masterly book brings us into [the]...debate and the lives of those who live it, not through fiction but through a factual account illuminated by his own intelligence and empathy."--Elliott Abrams, Wall Street Journal

"Brilliant."--David Laskin, USA Today

"A magnificent book, one of the two or three finest books about Israel I have ever read.... Nothing explains more eloquently why Israel, more than most any other country, lives or dies based on the power and justice of its animating ideas."--Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg News

"Yossi Klein Halevi has written the Israeli epic."--Michael Oren, best-selling author of Six Days of War and Israeli Ambassador to Washington

"A fascinating study of modern Israel."--New York Post

"Halevi's book is executed with imagination, narrative drive, and, above all, deep empathy for a wide variety of Israelis, and the result is a must-read for anyone with an interest in contemporary Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"An artful, affecting blend of history, biography, political science, and religion and an illustration of how small lights can illuminate a large landscape."--Kirkus Reviews

Reseña del editor:

In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present.

Following the lives of seven young members from the 55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade, the unit responsible for restoring Jewish sovereignty to Jerusalem, Halevi reveals how this band of brothers played pivotal roles in shaping Israel’s destiny long after their historic victory. While they worked together to reunite their country in 1967, these men harbored drastically different visions for Israel’s future.

One emerges at the forefront of the religious settlement movement, while another is instrumental in the 2005 unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. One becomes a driving force in the growth of Israel’s capitalist economy, while another ardently defends the socialist kibbutzim. One is a leading peace activist, while another helps create an anti-Zionist terror underground in Damascus.

Featuring an eight pages of black-and-white photos and maps, Like Dreamers is a nuanced, in-depth look at these diverse men and the conflicting beliefs that have helped to define modern Israel and the Middle East.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0060545771
• ISBN 13: 9780060545772
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 624