David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521197489)

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.

Author: Shlomo Aronson
ISBN-10: 0521197481
ISBN-13: 9780521197489
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2010
Pages: 476
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.56w x 1.25d