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David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish renaissance / Shlomo Aronson ; translated by Naftali Greenwood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aronson, Shlomo, 1936- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Daṿid Ben-Guryon. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973.
- Ben-Gurion, David.
- Labor Zionism--Israel--History--20th century.
- Labor Zionism.
- Israel--Politics and government--1948-1967.
- Israel.
- Israel--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 454 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st English ed.
- Other Title:
- David Ben-Gurion & the Jewish Renaissance
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The intellectual origins of Ben-Gurion's Zionism
- The Holocaust and its lessons
- Ben-Gurion between right and left
- Ben-Gurion and the Israel Defense Forces : from its formation to the Suez
- Sinai campaign of 1956
- From the 1956 war to the 'Lavon Affair'
- From the 'Lavon Affair' to the Six-Day War
- Epilogue : the renaissance that waned and its leader.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-511-86160-5
- 1-107-21493-9
- 1-282-94368-5
- 9786612943683
- 0-511-85989-9
- 0-511-85902-3
- 0-511-86076-5
- 0-511-85815-9
- 0-511-76243-7
- 0-511-85728-4
- OCLC:
- 693761328
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