A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time - Softcover

Sachar, Howard M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375711325 ISBN 13: 9780375711329

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007

Synopsis

Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

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About the Author:

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and reared in Champaign, Illinois, HOWARD MORLEY SACHAR received his undergraduate education at Swarthmore and took his graduate degrees at Harvard. He has taught extensively in the field of modern European history, and lived in the Middle East for six years, two of them on fellowship, the rest as founder-director of Brandeis University's Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem. Dr. Sachar has contributed to many scholarly journals and is the author of thirteen other books.

From Booklist:

When first published in 1976, this truly monumental history was hailed as a definitive work. The revised and expanded edition covers all issues from that point to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Sachar's topics include the rise of Jewish nationalism, Theodor Herzl and the rise of political Zionism, Zionism after Herzl, the Balfour Declaration, the seeds of Arab-Jewish confrontation, Palestine in World War II, postwar Palestine, the war of independence, the growth of the Israeli republic, Israel's search for peace and security, economic and social growth, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the Likud era, peace with Egypt, and Israel's involvement in Lebanon. Sachar concludes with chapters focusing on what he calls a tormented road to peace and an appraisal at half century. As extraordinarily stimulating as the first edition. George Cohen

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0375711325
• ISBN 13: 9780375711329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1270