This Middle East history covers the years of the British Mandate, assessing British views toward Zionists and Arabs, major policy decisions, key personalities, armed resistance, and the efforts before and after WWII to establish a Jewish homeland. A New York Times Editors' Choice for 2000.
A controversial and powerful work, this monumental history is the first to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on thousands of pages of newly declassified documents, as well as on diaries and interviews, journalist-historian Tom Segev tells the dramatic story of how the yishuv - the ...
The founding of Israel in 1948 - one of the seminal events of the century - offers a dramatic narrative with few parallels in modern history. In 1949, a controversial best-seller in Israel, Tom Segev draws on thousands of declassified documents along with personal diaries and correspondence to reconstruct the unvarnished story of Israel's first ...
From Israel's leading historian, a sweeping history of 1967--the war, what led up to it, what came after, and how it changed everything Tom Segev's acclaimed works One Palestine, Complete and The Seventh Million overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now, in "1967"--a number-one bestseller in Hebrew--he brings his masterful skills to ...
One of Israel's New Historians addresses issues of contemporary Israeli society and sees it as troubled by Americanization, consumerism, and a cultural rupture with old Zionist ideals. He sees his nation as entering a new era, which he calls "Post-Zionism."
They were soldiers and killers, trapped in the mystiques of military service and evil--commanders of the Nazi concentration camps. This book tells their story: who these men were, what led them to join the Nazi movement, and how they could function in the everyday routine of torture and death. 8 pages of photos.
An urgent intervention by Israeli citizens challenging the occupation of Palestinian territory, this book presents a broad range of dissenting voices that articulate practical, legal, and moral objection to the situation.
1967 did not mark the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it was a year that changed the course of history. When Egypt's President Nasser closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli navigation, it triggered a conflict between Israel and the armies of Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Within six days the Israelis had occupied territories three ...
A controversial and powerful work, this monumental history is the first to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on thousands of pages of newly declassified documents as well as diaries and interviews, Segev tells the dramatic story of how the Jewish community confronted the rise of ...
One of Israel's New Historians addresses issues of contemporary Israeli society and sees it as troubled by Americanization, consumerism, and a cultural rupture with old Zionist ideals. He sees his nation as entering a new era, which he calls "Post-Zionism."
Description: Near Fine. 344pgs Large paperback. Clean, tight & bright. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. Microfilm copy of author Tom Segev doctoral. Thesis. This was later published in hardback in 1988 by McGraw-Hill as "Soldiers of Evil". A unique item. read more
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