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A history of Israel : from the rise of Zionism to our time / Howard M. Sachar.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sachar, Howard Morley, 1928-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Israel--History.
- Israel.
- History.
- Zionism--History.
- Zionism.
- Palestine--History--1917-1948.
- Palestine.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 1270 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition, revised and updated.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alred A. Knopf, 2007.
- Summary:
- Voluminous treatise encompassing the history of Israel from the late-nineteenth century to present day.
- Contents:
- The rise of Jewish nationalism
- The beginning of the Return
- Herzl and the rise of political Zionism
- The growth of the Yishuv
- The Balfour Declaration
- The establishment of the mandate
- Building the Jewish national home
- The seeds of Arab-Jewish confrontation
- Britain repudiates the Jewish national home
- Palestine in World War II
- The Yishuv repudiates the mandate
- The birth of Israel
- The war of independence
- The growth of the Israeli republic
- Ingathering and the struggle for economic survival
- The search for peace and security
- Sinai and Suez
- Years of economic and social growth
- A decade of political and diplomatic achievement
- Cultural and ideological currents
- The Six-Day War
- Israel as empire
- Israel and world Jewry
- The War of the Day of Judgment
- Aftermath of an earthquake
- The Likud era begins
- An accommodation with Egypt
- Romantic nationalism and Realpolitik
- Revisionism at the apogee
- Israel in Lebanon
- A crisis of Israeli spirit, of diaspora loyalty
- The era of unity governments
- The wages of immobilism
- A tormented road to peace
- A deterioration of the Rabin-Peres legacy
- Ehud Barak's two years
- The bulldozer as prime minister
- The bulldozer as statesman
- Israel faces the Twenty-first Century
- A mottled landscape
- A Middle Eastern hour of decision.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 1135-1207) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Israel, Winner, 1977
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sachar, Howard Morley, 1928- History of Israel.
- ISBN:
- 9780375711329
- 0375711325
- OCLC:
- 77116924
- Publisher Number:
- 99817032085
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