David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance

Informationen zum Autor Shlomo Aronson is Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, as well as Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His scholarship has focused on Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, Israeli domestic and foreign policy, nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, 'Post-Zionism', and current anti-Zionism. He is the author of a number of books, including Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East, The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East, and Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews. Klappentext A reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel. Zusammenfassung This book is a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel from the perspective of the twenty-first century. The book describes and analyzes the man and his unique period of ascendance! which he and his peers described as the 'Jewish Renaissance'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The intellectual origins of Ben-Gurion's Zionism; 2. The Holocaust and its lessons; 3. Ben-Gurion between left and right; 4. Ben-Gurion and the Israel Defense Forces - from its formation to the Suez-Sinai campaign of 1956; 5. From the 1956 war to the 'Lavon Affair'; 6. From 'the Affair' to the Six-Day War; Conclusion: the waning of an age and its leader.

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• Authors: Shlomo Aronson, Shlomo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Aronson, Aronson Shlomo
• Assisted by: Naftali Greenwood (Translation), Greenwood Naftali (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521197489
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19748-9
• No. of pages: 476
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Israel, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Jewish Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Political leaders and leadership, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities