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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.
Contributor:
George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
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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