In Search of Israel
The History of an Idea
- ISBN: 9780691203973
- Editorial: Princeton University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2020
- Lugar de la edición: Princeton. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Jewish studies. History
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 21 cm
- Nº Pág.: 392
- Idiomas: Inglés
Many Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel’s founders, the nation that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and the heart of a prosperous new Middle East. It is this paradox, says historian Michael Brenner—the Jewish people’s wish for a homeland both normal and exceptional—that shapes Israel’s ongoing struggle to define itself and secure a place among nations. In Search of Israel is a major new history of this struggle from the late nineteenth century to our time.
24 b/w illus. 4 maps. Finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards
