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Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land. Extensive primary research and a lucid prose make Professor Monty Noam Penkower¿s account a riveting reading experience.
List of contents
Volume 2: Into the International Arena, 1947-1948To the United Nations
UNSCOP, Two Sergeants, and the Exodus 1947
Partition
Civil War
Statehood at Long Last
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Monty Noam Penkower is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 completes his trilogy on the rise of the State of Israel, preceded by Palestine in Turmoil: The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933-1939 and Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945.
Summary
Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land.
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“Prominent American historian Monty Noam Penkower, who has
previously written a number of books about British-ruled Palestine and the
international diplomacy surrounding the ‘Palestine question’, traces and
assesses developments inside and outside of Palestine during the final years of
the British mandate in this thorough and perceptive two-volume history. Whilst
the author’s intention is to contribute to historical knowledge about the Arab–Israeli
conflict rather than to refute historical myths about it, his penetrating dissection
of developments from 1945 through 1948 pertaining to this question most
certainly accomplishes the latter task. … This two-volume set represents an exhaustive
inquiry into how and why the Jewish state came into existence—an inquiry that
is enthusiastically recommended for students of this period.” —David Rodman, Israel
Affairs
