A history of Israel : from the rise of Zionism to our time
A comprehensive account of the origins, establishment, development, and struggles of the modern Jewish state and of the men and women, great and small, who helped or hindered Israel's survival
Print Book, English, 1996
2nd ed., rev. and updated View all formats and editions
A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, New York, 1996
History
xx, 1153 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780679446323, 9780679765639, 067944632X, 0679765638
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I. The Rise of Jewish Nationalism
II. The Beginning of the Return
III. Herzl and the Rise of Political Zionism
IV. The Growth of the Yishuv
V. The Balfour Declaration
VI. The Establishment of the Mandate
VII. Building the Jewish National Home
VIII. The Seeds of Arab-Jewish Confrontation
IX. Britain Repudiates the Jewish National Home
X. Palestine in World War II
XI. The Yishuv Repudiates the Mandate
XII. The Birth of Israel
XIII. The War of Independence
XIV. The Growth of the Israeli Republic
XV. Ingathering and the Struggle for Economic Survival
XVI. The Search for Peace and Security
XVII. Sinai and Suez
XVIII. Years of Economic and Social Growth
XIX. A Decade of Political and Diplomatic Achievement
XX. Cultural and Ideological Currents
XXI. The Six-Day War
XXII. Israel as Empire
XXIII. Israel and World Jewry
XXIV. The War of the Day of Judgment
XXV. Aftermath of an Earthquake
XXVI. The Likud Era Begins
XXVII. An Accommodation with Egypt
XXVIII. Romantic Nationalism and Realpolitik
XXIX. Revisionism at the Apogee
XXX. Israel in Lebanon
XXXI. A Crisis of Israeli Spirit, of Disaspora Loyalty
XXXII. The Era of Unity Governments
XXXIII. The Wages of Immobilism
XXXIV. A Tormented Road to Peace
XXXV. The Mottled Landscape: An Appraisal at Half Century