In Search of Israel : : The History of an Idea / / Michael Brenner.

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ash...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 24 b/w illus. 4 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. A State (Un)Like Any Other State
  • 1. The Five Seasons of 1897: Shaping the Jewish Future
  • 2. The Seven-Hour-Land: A Light unto the Nations
  • 3. The National Home: A State in the Making?
  • 4. Original Israel: A State Defining Itself
  • 5 Greater Israel: A State Expanding
  • 6. Global Israel: A State beyond Borders
  • Conclusion: Israel's New Order
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index