The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948 write by Eran Kaplan. This book was released on 2011-12-01. The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1880 the Jewish community in Palestine encompassed some 20,000 Orthodox Jews; within sixty-five years it was transformed into a secular proto-state with well-developed political, military, and economic institutions, a vigorous Hebrew-language culture, and some 600,000 inhabitants. The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948: A Documentary History chronicles the making of modern Israel before statehood, providing in English the texts of original sources (many translated from Hebrew and other languages) accompanied by extensive introductions and commentaries from the volume editors. This sourcebook assembles a diverse array of 62 documents, many of them unabridged, to convey the ferment, dissent, energy, and anxiety that permeated the Zionist project from its inception to the creation of the modern nation of Israel. Focusing primarily on social, economic, and cultural history rather than Zionist thought and diplomacy, the texts are organized in themed chapters. They present the views of Zionists from many political and religious camps, factory workers, farm women, militants, intellectuals promoting the Hebrew language and arts—as well as views of ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionists. The volume includes important unabridged documents from the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict that are often cited but are rarely read in full. The editors, Eran Kaplan and Derek J. Penslar, provide both primary texts and informative notes and commentary, giving readers the opportunity to encounter voices from history and make judgments for themselves about matters of world-historical significance. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the Public Library Reviewers Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians
The Making of Modern Israel
The Making of Modern Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Modern Israel write by Leslie Stein. This book was released on 2013-05-20. The Making of Modern Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On May 14, 1948 the State of Israel was declared, announced by David Ben-Gurion at a small gathering that assembled in the main hall of the Tel Aviv Art Museum. Within a time frame of only nineteen years, culminating in the Six-Day War, Israel fought three separate wars. But within its first four years, thanks to mass immigration, its population doubled. Furthermore, Israel had been confronted with acute economic difficulties, intra Jewish ethnic tensions, a problematic Arab minority and a secular-religious divide. Apart from defence issues, Israel faced a generally hostile or, at best, indifferent international community rendering it hard pressed in securing great power patronage or even official sympathy and understanding. Based on a wide range of sources, both in Hebrew and English, this book contains a judicious synthesis of the received literature to yield the general reader and student alike a reliable, balanced, and novel account of Israel?s fateful and turbulent infancy.
The Making of Israel's Army
The Making of Israel's Army - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Israel's Army write by Yigal Allon. This book was released on 1965. The Making of Israel's Army available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Creation of Israel
The Creation of Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Creation of Israel write by Phillip Margulies. This book was released on 2005. The Creation of Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Israel's creation in 1948 was the fulfillment of an ancient dream for the persecuted Jewish people, the culmination of 75 years of Zionist diplomacy and settlement, and a disaster for 700,000 Palestinian refugees. This anthology examines the forces that led to the creation of Israel and the unresolved issues that continue to rivet the world's attention to this small strip of land on the Mediterranean Sea.
The Idea of Israel
The Idea of Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Idea of Israel write by Ilan Pappe. This book was released on 2014-02-04. The Idea of Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major history of Zionism and the state of Israel—for anyone interested in deepening their knowledge of the Israel-Palestine conflict and Middle Eastern politics “[Ilan Pappé] is . . . one of the few Israeli students of the conflict who write about the Palestinian side with real knowledge and empathy.” —Guardian Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country’s education system, media, and cinema, and the uses that are made of the Holocaust in supporting the state’s ideological structure. In particular, Pappe examines the way successive generations of historians have framed the 1948 conflict as a liberation campaign, creating a foundation myth that went unquestioned in Israeli society until the 1990s. Pappe himself was part of the post-Zionist movement that arose then. He was attacked and received death threats as he exposed the truth about how Palestinians have been treated and the gruesome structure that links the production of knowledge to the exercise of power. The Idea of Israel is a powerful and urgent intervention in the war of ideas concerning the past, and the future, of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict.
