| Israel at Sixty: Rethinking the Birth of the Jewish State Contributor(s): Karsh, Efraim (Editor), Miller, Rory (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415483174 ISBN-13: 9780415483179 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Leading experts on Zionism and Israel examine the domestic and international context of Israel's birth in 1948. In doing so they challenge conventional wisdom and provide a new insight into the establishment of Israel, one of the key developments in the history of the modern Middle East. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Social Science | Regional Studies - History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine |
| Dewey: 956.940 |
| Physical Information: 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sixty years after the birth of Israel, this fascinating and original book of essays brings together a number of the leading experts on Zionism and Israel to examine the domestic and international context of Israel's transition from community to state in 1948. With contributions on a wide range of historically important topics that are no less relevant now than they were six decades ago, the book examines how countries as diverse as France, the United States, Turkey, Britain and Ireland viewed the partition of Palestine in 1947 and the subsequent establishment of Israel in 1948. It also looks at the involvement of the UN, Zionist and Arab leaders in the events immediately preceding Israel's birth. While controversial issues such as the role of the Holocaust in the creation of Israel and the attitude of the Zionist movement to Palestinian Arabs, from its onset to the 1948 war, are examined in order to set the record straight after decades of mistaken and misleading research. This book was previously published as a special issue of Israel Affairs. |