David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance - Hardcover

Aronson, Shlomo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521197481 ISBN 13: 9780521197489

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This book is a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel from the perspective of the twenty-first century. The book describes and analyzes the man and his unique period of ascendance, which he and his peers described as the 'Jewish Renaissance'.

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Críticas:

'Aronson creates an illuminating portrait that challenges the recent litany of attacks that have become standard fare in the relentlessly negative discussions of Israel. His sympathetic rehabilitation of Ben-Gurion is also a timely and intricate refutation of its critics.' Jerusalem Post

Reseña del editor:

This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now - after the dust surrounding Israel's founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurion's downfall - this book presents a fresh look at this statesman-intellectual and his success and tragic failures during a unique period of time that he and his peers described as the 'Jewish renaissance'. The resulting reappraisal offers a new analysis of Ben-Gurion's actual role as a major player in Israeli, Middle Eastern, and global politics.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521197481
• ISBN 13: 9780521197489
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 478