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Ben-Gurion : the burning ground, 1886-1948 / Shabtai Teveth.
Van Pelt Library DS125.3.B37 T475 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Teveth, Shabtai, 1925-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973.
- Ben-Gurion, David.
- Prime ministers--Israel--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- Israel.
- Zionists--Palestine--Biography.
- Zionists.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 967 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Hebrew.
- Summary:
- The author takes the reader through ben Gurion's life, from birth to his crowning event, the Extablishment of the State of Israel. called the "father of the State of Israel", he provides through his life a living history of Zionism.
- Contents:
- Plonsk
- Warsaw
- Jaffa
- Sejera
- Jerusalem, Istanbul
- Ottoman patriot
- New York
- Yizkor
- Paula
- Achdut ha-Avodah
- The elected assembly
- London and Vienna
- The either-or approach
- Reb Avigdor immigrates to Palestine
- The quest for predominance
- Messenger from the land of wonders
- The struggle for authority
- Paula's jealousy
- The blood wedding with Ha-Poel ha-Mizrachi
- A threat of murder
- A corpse at Sprinzak's doorstep
- Indispensable
- An organization of conquerors
- Toward a new venture
- Conquests
- Victory
- The plan
- Peace within and peace without
- Disappointment
- The new executive
- Weizmann: a danger to Zionism
- Exploiting disaster
- Taking on the royal commission
- Grappling with partition
- First seed
- The great deception
- November 1938
- The kings of the Jews in America
- The great formula
- Struggle within a struggle
- An ultimatum for Weizmann
- Zionist preacher
- "An act of political assassination"
- Disaster means strength.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 879-924) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Israel, Winner, 1988
- Other Format:
- Online version: Teveth, Shabtai, 1925- Ben-Gurion.
- ISBN:
- 0395354099
- 9780395354094
- 0395483581
- 9780395483589
- OCLC:
- 14932630
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