Impossible takes longer
75 years after its creation has Israel fulfilled its founders' dreams?
Impossible takes longer
75 years after its creation has Israel fulfilled its founders' dreams?
Book - 2023
"In 1948, Israel's founders had much more in mind than the creation of a state. They sought not mere sovereignty but also a 'national home for the Jewish people,' where Jewish life would be transformed. Did they succeed? The state they made, says Daniel Gordis, is a place of extraordinary success and maddening disappointment, a story of both unprecedented human triumph and great suffering. Now, as the country marks its seventy-fifth anniversary, Gordis asks: Has Israel fulfilled the dreams of its founders? Using Israel's Declaration of Independence as his measure, Gordis provides a thorough, balanced perspective on how the Israel of today exceeds the country's original aspirations and how it has fallen short"--
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2023]
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| 300 | |a xxxvii, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Preface: A Jewish national liberation movement -- |t Part I "I broke the bars of your yoke". Zionism transforms a nation -- |t "We hereby declare" : first, existence -- |t "We shall still see goodness" : healing Jewish heartbreak -- |t "Grounded in our national culture" : restoring a nation -- |t Part II "Must the sword devour forever?". Conflict and the Jewish state -- |t "Lest the sword fall from our hands" : Jews defend themselves -- |t "The day of vengeance will come" : wars with neighboring states -- |t "Liberation" or "Nakba" : Palestinians, land, legitimacy -- |t Part III "As envisioned by the prophets". The complicated care of Israel's democracy -- |t "I'm for Jewish democracy" : ethnic democracy and its discontents -- |t "Do what is just and right" : the "other in Israeli society -- |t "A life of honest toil" : from food rationing to tech powerhouse -- |t Part IV "The Jewish state" or "The state of the Jews"?. Jewish statehood, Jewish flourishing -- |t "Trust in the rock of Israel" : Judaism in the state of the Jews -- |t "From the four corners of the earth" : Israel and the diaspora -- |t "The world shall fill with bounty" : Israel and humankind -- |t Conclusion: "Half dust, half heaven". |
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