Israel is Real

There are many books about Israel, but none like this. From Rich Cohen, the author of the acclaimed Tough Jews, The Avengers, and Sweet and Low, comes a new approach to a story we thought we knew. Breaking through the heated polemics and intractable politics, Israel Is Real is a fresh voice, a tale of people and ideas, of the background of present-day Israel. Cohen relates Israel's story as that of a place long ago destroyed and transformed into an idea . . . and which, sixty years ago, was retransformed into a place, and therefore into something that can once again be destroyed. From the medieval false prophets, to the nineteenth-century Zionists, and on to present-day figures like Ariel Sharon, Cohen tells the stories of the people obsessed with this fine line between place and idea, creation and destruction. He reclaims from obscurity a multitude of figures marginalised by history, but whose lives are key to any real understanding of Israel.

Product details

• Authors: Rich Cohen, Cohen Rich
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781787330184
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-018-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Israel, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Social and cultural history