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David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance
Author(s): Shlomo Aronson (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 17 July 2014
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 478 pages
- ISBN-10: 1107425204
- ISBN-13: 9781107425200
Book Description
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.
