In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea

by Michael Brenner

Book Overview

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be

Many Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and the heart of a prosperous new Middle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069117928X
• ISBN13: 9780691179285
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.7" x 8.6"