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Title: Israel
Author: DOWTY ALAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/07/2021
Imprint: POLITY
Price: $26.95
Publishing status: Active
How did a community of a few thousand Jewish refugees become, in little over a century, a modern nation-state and homeland of half the world’s Jews? Has modern Israel fulfilled the Zionist vision of becoming \”a nation like other nations,\” or is it still, in Biblical terns, \”a people that dwells alone\”?
Alan Dowty distils over half a century of study as an inside/outside analyst of Israel in tracing this remarkable story. It begins in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, when Jews fleeing Russian persecution established a renewed Jewish presence in their historic homeland. It continues through harsh struggle and in deep-rooted conflict with another people that sees Israel/Palestine equally as their homeland. Immensely successful by most standards, Israel today remains a center of contention and is still torn between its hard-earned role as a \”normal\” nation and the call of its particularistic, and unique, Jewish history.
Series: Polity Histories
ISBN: 9781509536900
Weight: 190g
Dimension: 177mm X 116mm
Pages: 198