Beschreibung:
The book relates individual episodes from the saga of Israel instead of narrating a formal, conventional history up to the present day. Each section deals with a different aspect of this journey through the decades. The subjects do not cover old ground and are intentionally revelatory as they relate the history of Israel in a vivid, engaging way.
The saga of Israel is fascinating, unique, and controversial. Yet the whole is constructed from individual episodes. This book concentrates on relating such episodes rather than narrating a formal, conventional history up until the present day. Each section deals with a different aspect of this journey through the decades. The chapters are based on the author’s own articles, published over the last fifty years in many outlets, from The New York Times and The Jerusalem Post to The Guardian. Each section and essay is linked to the next by an explanatory introduction. Most subjects are often unconventional and unusual. They do not cover old ground and are often intentionally revelatory as they relate the history of Israel in a vivid, engaging way.
Introduction- The Making of Modern Israel
Tel Aviv:Zerach Barnett and the Founding of the First Hebrew CityWorld War I and the Jewish Question The Left and the Right: A 1933 Murder Mystery: The Killing of Haim ArlosoroffAvraham Stern and his ‘Gang’- The Nation-Builders
In the Beginning: Theodor HerzlChaim Weizmann and Vladimir JabotinskyDavid Gruen from Plonsk - The Zionists and Pre-War Nationalism
The GermansThe ItaliansThe IrishThe Ukrainians- The Road to Independence
World War II and ZionismThe AftermathThe Debate over PartitionArieh Handler: Seeing Ben-Gurion proclaim the State of IsraelHow British Jews reacted to the Rise of Israel- Israel in the Eyes of the History Makers
Disraeli and a mythical ZionChurchill and the Jewish StateStalin and Soviet Jews: 1948-1953The Kennedys and the Promised LandRichard Nixon and the Yom Kippur War- The Slow Disintegration of Labour Zionism
Imperialism, Zionism and Arab NationalismLabour Dissension after 1967Yigal AllonMoshe DayanAbba Eban- The Ascendency of the Right
The Persona of Menahem BeginBegin in PolandThe Irgun and afterAbba Ahimeir and the Attraction of FascismThe Influence of other Struggles- Israel and Pariah Regimes
Turning away from the pastThe AfrikanersThe ArgentiniansThe Chileans- Evangelical Zionists
The Legacies of Christianity and IslamThe American Religious Right and the LikudEvangelical Enthusiasm for Israel- The Struggle for Soviet Jewry
The Genesis of the Jewish ProblemHow the Soviet Jewry Movement StartedThe Change in Israeli policy and Jewish ActivismThe First Trials of Soviet JewsThe Village of Ilyinka- Human Rights and the USSR
Marxist-Leninist ZionistsThe Use and Abuse of Political Psychiatry in the USSRSolzhenitsyn and Sakharov on the Jewish QuestionSpeaking to Sharansky- The Life and Death of Yitzhak Rabin
Rabin’s Resurrection 1992Rabin’s Election and GovernmentThe Incitement by the RightThe Killing and its JustificationThe Aftermath- The Mystery of Ariel Sharon
Mr ‘Inconstituency’Who was Ariel Sharon?From Russia with LoveThe Drift to the RightThe Twilight Years From Mr Hyde to Dr Jekyll- The Islamist Rejectionists
Hamas and Palestinian ResistanceNegotiating with Hamas: An Exchange with Uri AvneriGaza under Hamas RuleHezbollah in the North- In the Company of Critics
Critical FriendsMargaret Thatcher, British Jews and IsraelNye Bevan and Zion- Different Diaspora Voices
A History of DissentAfter 1945Jewish Apostates?Uncivil WarA Plethora of Jewish Critics- Non-Jewish Jews and Israel
Isaac Deutscher and Elisha Ben-AbuyaRalph Miliband and Jewish RealityEric Hobsbawm and 1940The Long March of the Corbynistas- Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions
The Campaign and its OriginsThe Anti-Normalisation CampaignApartheid IsraelJewish Reaction to the Boycott- Twenty First Century Politics
The Rise of the Far RightIn Government with Lieberman and BennettSupporting the RightRecognising Israel as a Jewish State