David Ben-Gurion And The Jewish Renaissance

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. 9781107425200 1107425204 478 History NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=olR6oAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Shlomo Aronson
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Jul 17, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 478 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1107425204
• • ISBN-13: 9781107425200