New York Praeger 2000 Hardcover Near Fine/None No dust jacket, as issued. As new....

ISBN10: 0275966380, ISBN13: 9780275966386, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover First Edition Near Fine/None (4922) No dust jacket, as issued. As new. . 261
[Lexington, MA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0275966380, ISBN13: 9780275966386, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Sicker provides a synthesis from a wide range of sources that have not previously been integrated to present an unromanticized recapitulation of the events and personalities that led to the troubled birth of modern Israel. Much historical writing on modern Israel, Sicker asserts, is apologetic and editorially filtered in conformity with a traditional Zionist historiography that tends to obscure as much as it reveals. As a result, the emergence of modern Israel is shrouded in a mythology that has little or no place for inconvenient facts or dissonant voices. Sicker examines the nature of the struggles within the Zionist community over the national idea and its implications, and the evolving interactions of that community with the external political environment. This leads him to assign a far more significant role to the so- called right-wing movements than is usually allotted to them in the traditional left-oriented historiography and a more critical assessment of the Zionist leadership.He shows that virtually every major problem faced by contemporary Israel, a half-century after it came into existence, was foreshadowed by the events and circumstances that precipitated and conditioned its emergence. Sicker examines the seemingly irreconcilable differences between the left and right extremes of the political spectrum; between ...
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Westport, CT Praeger 2000 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 280 p. Contains: Unspecified.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Pangs of the Messiah: The Troubled Birth of the Jewish State. ISBN 0275966380 9780275966386 [GB]

ISBN10: 0275966380, ISBN13: 9780275966386, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover 0275966380
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