The Jews in their land / conceived and edited by David Ben-Gurion ; translated from the Hebrew by Mordechai Nurock, Misha Louvish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973, editor.

Nurock, Max, 1893-1978.

Louvish, Misha.

Shazar, Zalman, 1889-1974.

Robson, Jeremy.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Windfall book.

A Windfall book

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--Palestine--History.

Jews.

History.

Israel--History.

Israel.

Middle East--Palestine.

Allergy and Immunology.

Medical Subjects:

Allergy and Immunology.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 31 cm.

Edition:

[New revised edition].

Manufacture:

Ljubljana : Printed and bound by Mladinska Knjiga.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1974]

Contents:

Foreword / Dr. Zalman Shazar, former President of Israel

Entry to Exile 1200 B.C.E.-587 B.C.E. / Professor Yohanan Aharoni

The Prophets / Dr. Eliahu Auerbach

From the Babylonian Exile to the Bar Kochba Revolt 587 B.C.E.-135 C.E. / ProfessorYehoshua Guttmann and Dr. Menahem Stern

From Bar Kochba's Revolt to the Turkish Conquest 135 C.E.-1517 / Professor Benzion Dinur

Under Ottoman Rule 1517-1917 / Dr. Izhak Ben-Zvi

From the Founding of Petah Tikva to the Present Day 1878- / David Ben-Gurion.

Notes:

"First published in the United States of America in 1966 by Doubleday & Company Inc. ... New revised edition 1974."

"Editor: David Ben-Gurion. Text Editor: Jeremy Robson. Art Editor: Felix Gluck."

"Reference Map" on endpapers.

"Note: The term B.C.e. used throughout the text denotes "Before the Christian Era"; the term C.E. denotes "Christian Era"."

Marginal headings.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0385061528

9780385061520

OCLC:

912352