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Authors: Joseph Heller
ISBN-13: 9780813026473, ISBN-10: 0813026474
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: First
Joseph Heller s debut novel Catch-22 will always be remembered as a brilliantly scathing indictment of war and one of the great absurdist comedies of 20th century American literature. However, it also created a painful catch-22 for its author at the expense of his subsequent works, which he would eventually explore in his final novel Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man.
Preface | ||
Chronology | ||
Abbreviations | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | The International Arena: The Policy of the Jewish Agency and Mapai | |
1 | Rise of the American Orientation: From Humanitarian Aid to Political Recognition | 21 |
2 | Relationship with the Soviet Union: From Antagonism to Vital Aid | 51 |
Pt. II | The Regional Arena: The Arab Question | |
3 | Consolidation of Official Policy | 73 |
Pt. III | The Internal Background of Zionist Foreign Policy | |
4 | David Ben-Gurion, Mapai, and the Victory of Pragmatic Activism | 113 |
5 | Chaim Weizmann and the Collapse of the British Orientation: An Alternative to Activist Politics? | 149 |
6 | The Intellectuals: Ichud and the Politics of Binationalism | 161 |
7 | Aliyah Hadashah: Ideology and Practice of Nonviolent Zionism | 181 |
Pt. IV | The Radical Left: Zionist Strategy and Marxist Tactics? | |
8 | Hashomer Hatza'ir: From Binationalism to Federalism | 197 |
9 | Le'achdut Ha'avodah Movement: From the Integrity of "Eretz Israel" to Federalism | 217 |
10 | Mapam and the War of Independence: Test Case for an Ideological Party | 229 |
Pt. V | The Radical Right | |
11 | The Revisionist Party: A Zionist Sinn Fein? | 249 |
12 | Menachem Begin, IZL, and Herut: From Underground to Political Legitimacy | 267 |
Conclusions | 282 | |
App | The Debate on the "New Historians" | 295 |
Notes | 309 | |
Bibliography | 355 | |
Index | 363 |