David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish renaissance
This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dre...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The intellectual origins of Ben-Gurion's Zionism
- The Holocaust and its lessons
- Ben-Gurion between right and left
- Ben-Gurion and the Israel Defense Forces : from its formation to the Suez
- Sinai campaign of 1956
- From the 1956 war to the 'Lavon Affair'
- From the 'Lavon Affair' to the Six-Day War
- Epilogue : the renaissance that waned and its leader