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Authors: Efraim Karsh
ISBN-13: 9780714680248, ISBN-10: 0714680249
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 2000
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Efraim Karsh

Book Synopsis

The Zionist Movement was born in the wake of Jewish emancipation in Western Europe, and at a time of increased persecution in Eastern Europe. This volume addresses the intellectual, social and political ramifications of Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel before the creation of the State of Israel.

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American, Israeli, and European scholars probe the issues surrounding the first 50 years of the Jewish state. They examine the initial Zionist movement as it existed around the world; controversies circling the making of Yishuv; the struggle for independence, both military and diplomatic; and the theoretical and religious foundations of Zionism, including the idea of sacred lands, and the formation of a state where none had existed before. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Israel 1948-98: Purpose and Predicament in History	3
	The Fracturing of the Jewish Self-Image: The End of 'We Are One'?	14
	Shifting the Centre from Nation to Individual and Universe: The New 'Democratic Faith' of Israel	31
	Zionism in the Israeli Theatre	43
	To Fantasy and Back: David Ben-Gurion's First Resignation, 1953	59
	Labour and Likud: Roots of their Ideological-Political Struggle for Hegemony over Zionism, 1925-35	79
	Likud and the Search for Eretz Israel: From the Bible to the Twenty-First Century	91
	The Delicate Framework of Israeli Democracy During the 1980s: Retrospect and Appraisal	118
	State-Religion Relations in Israel: The Subtle Issue Underlying the Rabin Assassination	139
	Referenda in a Post-Consociational Democracy: The Case of Israel	146
	Kibbutz or Moshav? Priority Changes of Settlement Types in Israel, 1949-53	163
	Mass Immigration and the Demographic Revolution in Israel	177
	The IDF and the Mass Immigration of the Early 1950s: Aid to the Immigrant Camps	191
	Public Service Broadcasting vs Public Service Broadcasting: The Crisis in the Service as the Outcome of the Clash Between State and Civil Society - The Israeli-Lebanese War, 1982	211
	The Bank-Shares Regulation Affair and Illegality in Israeli Society: A Theoretical Perspective of Unethical Managerial Behaviour	226
	Abstracts	253
	Index	259