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.
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About the Author
Preface
Introduction: Old-New Israel
1. The Zionist Revolution
2. Building a Community
3. Building a Nation-State
4. The Reassertion of Tradition
5. Oslo and the Ascendancy of the Right
6. The New Century: Impasse and Consolidation
Further Reading
Notes
Index
Sobre o autor
Alan Dowty is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington.
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