{"product_id":"the-hebrew-republic-9781442265967","title":"The Hebrew Republic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe saga of Israel is fascinating, unique, and controversial. Yet the whole is constructed from individual episodes. This book concentrates on relating such episodes rather than narrating a formal, conventional history up until the present day. Each section deals with a different aspect of this journey through the decades. The chapters are based on the author's own articles, published over the last fifty years in many outlets, from The New York Times and The Jerusalem Post to The Guardian. Each section and essay is linked to the next by an explanatory introduction. Most subjects are often unconventional and unusual. They do not cover old ground and are often intentionally revelatory as they relate the history of Israel in a vivid, engaging way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Hebrew Republic can and should be read by two different publics. Lay leaders will find a magisterial, insightful, panoramic look at Israel's history and politics embedded in the broader context of modern Jewish history and the dominant global trends of the time. Specialists will find a series of original and innovative essays on some of the most significant aspects of Israeli history and life. A must read; a rewarding read. -- Itamar Rabinovich, President of The Israel Institute, Washington and Tel Aviv\u003cbr\u003eColin Shindler is a celebrated historian of the rise of Zionism and  Israel; an author of important books on the Israeli Right; and a fearless moral, intellectual voice against oppression and hypocrisy. This collection of his reviews and essays is a veritable treasure trove of information and critical observations ranging over the movements, personalities and challenges of Jewish and Israeli history of the past 100 years. It is a delight to read. -- Jeremy Rosen, Chairman of the Faculty of Comparative Religion, Wilrijk; Rabbi of the Persian Center, Manhattan.\u003cbr\u003eWith an impressive command of his terrain and in lucid prose devoid of academic jargon, Colin Shindler guides the reader along the road from early Zionist idealism to contemporary Machiavellian politics. En route, he illuminates not only the highway of history, but also numerous little-known by-ways.  Journeying with him, the reader encounters a wide variety of individuals, pivotal moments, political movements and counter-movements which coalesce into a panorama of political theory and practice over the past two centuries. -- Alice Shalvi, professor emerita of English Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003eThe subtitle “Israel’s Return to History” represents a coherent collection of in-depth articles - at times chronological and at times focusing on crucial issues. Studying Modern Israel from inside and outside, Shindler explains its unfolding centrality for the dispersed Jewish people. This book is not only researching but also interprets the contending analyses of contradictions between the success of a dynamic state and its growing political isolation. -- Edward Kaufman, University of Maryland and Haifa University\u003cbr\u003eColin Shindler has produced a rich compendium of insights into Israel’s genesis, its early struggles and controversies, and its current challenges. He draws not just on his huge store of knowledge, but on an ability to convey the complexities of Israel and the Middle East, and of the wider political debate they generate, with depth and subtlety. -- Edward Temko, former editor of the Jewish Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1.The Making of Modern Israel Tel Aviv: Zerach Barnett and the Founding of the First Hebrew City World War I and the Jewish Question  The Left and the Right: A 1933 Murder Mystery: The Killing of Haim Arlosoroff Avraham Stern and his ‘Gang’ 2.The Nation-Builders  In the Beginning: Theodor Herzl Chaim Weizmann and Vladimir Jabotinsky David Gruen from Plonsk  3.The Zionists and Pre-War Nationalism The Germans The Italians The Irish The Ukrainians 4.The Road to Independence  World War II and Zionism The Aftermath The Debate over Partition Arieh Handler: Seeing Ben-Gurion proclaim the State of Israel How British Jews reacted to the Rise of Israel 5.Israel in the Eyes of the History Makers Disraeli and a mythical Zion Churchill and the Jewish State Stalin and Soviet Jews: 1948-1953 The Kennedys and the Promised Land Richard Nixon and the Yom Kippur War 6.The Slow Disintegration of Labour Zionism Imperialism, Zionism and Arab Nationalism Labour Dissension after 1967 Yigal Allon Moshe Dayan Abba Eban 7.The Ascendency of the Right The Persona of Menahem Begin Begin in Poland The Irgun and after Abba Ahimeir and the Attraction of Fascism The Influence of other Struggles 8.Israel and Pariah Regimes  Turning away from the past The Afrikaners The Argentinians The Chileans 9.Evangelical Zionists  The Legacies of Christianity and Islam The American Religious Right and the Likud Evangelical Enthusiasm for Israel 10.The Struggle for Soviet Jewry The Genesis of the Jewish Problem How the Soviet Jewry Movement Started The Change in Israeli policy and Jewish Activism The First Trials of Soviet Jews The Village of Ilyinka 11.Human Rights and the USSR Marxist-Leninist Zionists The Use and Abuse of Political Psychiatry in the USSR Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov on the Jewish Question Speaking to Sharansky 12.The Life and Death of Yitzhak Rabin Rabin’s Resurrection 1992 Rabin’s Election and Government The Incitement by the Right The Killing and its Justification The Aftermath 13.The Mystery of Ariel Sharon Mr ‘Inconstituency’ Who was Ariel Sharon? From Russia with Love The Drift to the Right The Twilight Years  From Mr Hyde to Dr Jekyll 14.The Islamist Rejectionists  Hamas and Palestinian Resistance Negotiating with Hamas: An Exchange with Uri Avneri Gaza under Hamas Rule Hezbollah in the North 15.In the Company of Critics Critical Friends Margaret Thatcher, British Jews and Israel Nye Bevan and Zion 16.Different Diaspora Voices A History of Dissent After 1945 Jewish Apostates? Uncivil War A Plethora of Jewish Critics 17.Non-Jewish Jews and Israel Isaac Deutscher and Elisha Ben-Abuya Ralph Miliband and Jewish Reality Eric Hobsbawm and 1940 The Long March of the Corbynistas 18.Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions The Campaign and its Origins The Anti-Normalisation Campaign Apartheid Israel Jewish Reaction to the Boycott 19.Twenty First Century Politics The Rise of the Far Right In Government with Lieberman and Bennett Supporting the Right Recognising Israel as a Jewish State","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039981994327,"sku":"9781442265967","price":36.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442265967.jpg?v=1750945424","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-hebrew-republic-9781442265967","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}