02545nam a22003017a 4500 NALT 20230201135709.0 230124b th ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780062368751 NALT DS 126.5 G67I 2016 59920 Gordis, Daniel Israel : A concise history of a nation reborn / Daniel Gordis. 1st ed., New York : An Imprint of HarperCollins, 2016. 546 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. A grand human story -- Poetry and politics : the Jewish nation seeks a home -- Some spot of a native land -- A conversation, not an ideology : Zionist divisions at the turn of the century -- From a dream to glimmers of reality -- The Balfour Declaration : the empire endorses the state -- Nowhere to go, even if they could leave -- The Yishuv resists the British, the Arabs battle partition -- Independence : the state is born -- From dreams of a state to the reality of statehood -- Israel enters the international arena -- Israel confronts the Holocaust -- Six days of war change a country forever -- The burden of occupation -- Yom Kippur War : the "conception" crashes -- Revolution within the revolution : the rise and revenge of Israel's political right -- Taking a page from the Zionists : the rise of Palestinian nationalism -- The peace process stalls -- A Jewish renaissance in the Jewish state -- A century after Balfour-- "A national home for the Jewish people" -- Appendix A. Glossary of people mentioned -- Appendix B. Glossary of non-English terms -- Appendix C. Israel's Declaration of Independence -- Appendix D. Israeli prime ministers and the American and Israeli presidents with whom they worked -- Appendix E. Israeli political parties and their changing balance of power. Presenting a brief but thorough account of the cultural, economic and political history of the state of Israel, a public intellectual sheds light on the past of this complex nation, one rife with conflict, so that readers can understand its future. 60003 Jewish-Arab relations History 20th century 60004 History, Modern 20th century Israel History 53394 60000 Middle East History 46179 Palestine History NALT GB lcc bijaya DAO 1020 นางจำเรียง ระวังสำโรง 101330 101330 0 0 lcc 0 0 CGBL NALT NALT GEN 2023-01-24 DS 126.5 G67I 2016 3961213492 2023-02-15 00:00:00 2023-01-24 GB