David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780521197489 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 476 str.

Shlomo Aronson

Opis

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 dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now after the dust surrounding Israel s founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurion s downfall this book presents a fresh look at this statesman-intellectual and his success and tragic failures during a unique period of time that he and his peers described as the Jewish renaissance. The resulting reappraisal offers a new analysis of Ben-Gurion s actual role as a major player in Israeli, Middle Eastern, and global politics."

Recenzje

'Aronson creates an illuminating portrait that challenges the recent litany of attacks that have become standard fare in the relentlessly negative discussions of Israel. His sympathetic rehabilitation of Ben-Gurion is also a timely and intricate refutation of its critics.' Jerusalem Post

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The intellectual origins of Ben-Gurion's Zionism; 2. The Holocaust and its lessons; 3. Ben-Gurion between left and right; 4. Ben-Gurion and the Israel Defense Forces - from its formation to the Suez-Sinai campaign of 1956; 5. From the 1956 war to the 'Lavon Affair'; 6. From 'the Affair' to the Six-Day War; Conclusion: the waning of an age and its leader.