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A State at Any Cost

Author : Tom Segev
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429951842
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis A State at Any Cost by : Tom Segev

Download or read book A State at Any Cost written by Tom Segev and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist "[A] fascinating biography . . . a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man . . . this is a gripping study of power, and the loneliness of power." —The Economist As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create a Jewish state, he thereupon took control of the Zionist movement, declared Israel’s independence, and navigated his country through wars, controversies and remarkable achievements. And yet Ben-Gurion remains an enigma—he could be driven and imperious, or quizzical and confounding. In this definitive biography, Israel’s leading journalist-historian Tom Segev uses large amounts of previously unreleased archival material to give an original, nuanced account, transcending the myths and legends that have accreted around the man. Segev’s probing biography ranges from the villages of Poland to Manhattan libraries, London hotels, and the hills of Palestine, and shows us Ben-Gurion’s relentless activity across six decades. Along the way, Segev reveals for the first time Ben-Gurion’s secret negotiations with the British on the eve of Israel’s independence, his willingness to countenance the forced transfer of Arab neighbors, his relative indifference to Jerusalem, and his occasional “nutty moments”—from UFO sightings to plans for Israel to acquire territory in South America. Segev also reveals that Ben-Gurion first heard about the Holocaust from a Palestinian Arab acquaintance, and explores his tempestuous private life, including the testimony of four former lovers. The result is a full and startling portrait of a man who sought a state “at any cost”—at times through risk-taking, violence, and unpredictability, and at other times through compromise, moderation, and reason. Segev’s Ben-Gurion is neither a saint nor a villain but rather a historical actor who belongs in the company of Lenin or Churchill—a twentieth-century leader whose iron will and complex temperament left a complex and contentious legacy that we still reckon with today.

David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy

Author : Nir Kedar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253057450
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy written by Nir Kedar and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Kedar provides an explication of the making of Israeli democracy in terms of its institutional-legal structures and social-cultural underpinnings. David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy connects the formal structures of democracy to the fundamental principles that they were constructed to serve—human freedom and dignity.

Ben-Gurion

Author : Anita Shapira
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180454
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Ben-Gurion written by Anita Shapira and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Ben-Gurion cast an enormous shadow across his world, and his legacy in the Middle East and beyond continues to be hotly debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder of modern Israel, but this new biography by eminent Israeli historian Anita Shapira is the first to get to the core of the complex man who would become the face of a new nation. Shapira tells the Ben-Gurion story anew, focusing especially on the period in 1948 immediately following Israel's declaration of independence, a time few historians have concentrated on and none have explored in such intimate detail. Through her intensive research and access to Ben-Gurion's personal archives and rarely viewed documents and letters, the author gained powerful insights into his private persona. Her fascinating literary portrait of David Ben-Gurion bares the flesh-and-blood man inside the influential historical figure who brought the Zionist dream to full fruition.

Ben-Gurion

Author : Shimʿon Peres
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0805242821
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Ben-Gurion written by Shimʿon Peres and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory portrait of Israel's first prime minister, written by its current president, includes coverage of his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.

Memoirs: David Ben-Gurion

Author : David Ben-Gurion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs: David Ben-Gurion written by David Ben-Gurion and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on a series of interviews with Ben-Gurion during the filming of the Covenant Communications Corporation production of Forty-two six." Bibliography: p. [215]-216. Jacket price: 6.95.

Ben-Gurion

Author : Michael Bar-Zohar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780440009870
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Ben-Gurion written by Michael Bar-Zohar and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ben-Gurion

Author : Shabtai Teveth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ben-Gurion written by Shabtai Teveth and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes the reader through ben Gurion's life, from birth to his crowning event, the Extablishment of the State of Israel. called the "father of the State of Israel", he provides through his life a living history of Zionism.

Ben-Gurion

Author : Avi Shilon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442249471
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Ben-Gurion written by Avi Shilon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth account of the later years of David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), Israel’s first Prime Minister and founding father. One of the first to sign Israel’s declaration of independence and a leading figure in Zionism, Ben-Gurion stepped down from office in 1963 and retired from political life in 1970, deeply disappointed about the path on which the state had embarked and the process that brought about the end of his political career. He moved to a kibbutz in the Negev desert, where he lived until his death. Robbed of the public aura that had wrapped him for decades, his revolutionary passion, which was not weakened in his 80s, pushed him to continue seeking social and moral change in Israel, a political solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict, and to conduct a personal and national soul-searching about the development of the State he himself had declared. Based on his personal archives and new interviews with his intimate friends and family, the book reveals how the founding father explored the Israeli establishment he created and from which he later disengaged. It provides a thorough examination of the decisive moments in the annals of Zionism as revealed through the lens of Ben-Gurion’s worldview, which are still relevant to present-day Israel.

David Ben-Gurion

Author : Ronald W Zweig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135188866
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book David Ben-Gurion written by Ronald W Zweig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. It may well be that genius begins where fear ends: not to be afraid to question what is known, not to be afraid to be original. David Ben-Gurion did not try to imitate anyone...He was endowed with a mind that sought out whats was new and was capable of penetrating the deepest recesses. First and foremost, he challenged every Jew who believed it was the fate of Jews to live in the Diaspora, and he believed that the Jews could be a nation of farmers, industrialists, soldiers, pioneers, and not only scientists and intellectuals. He decided that the time had come to establish a Jewish state, yet once it had been founded, he was not satisfied- it must be an exemplary state, a chosen state.

David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State

Author : Allon Gal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253325341
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State written by Allon Gal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of the demand for a Jewish state into a central and specific aim of Zionist policy and the interrelated process by which Ben-Gurion became increasingly oriented toward the United States and American Jewry at the expense of Zionism's historical connection with Great Britain. Based on new documentary evidence, Allon Gal's study charts Ben-Gurion's ascent from the leadership of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine) to prominence in world Zionist and international diplomacy.

David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance

Author : Shlomo Aronson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521197489
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance written by Shlomo Aronson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist "renaissance," of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now - after the dust surrounding Israel's founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurion's downfall - this book presents a fresh look at this statesman-intellectual and his success and tragic failures during a unique period of time that he and his peers described as the "Jewish renaissance." The resulting reappraisal offers a new analysis of Ben-Gurion's actual role as a major player in Israeli, Middle Eastern, and global politics.

Ben-Gurion Looks at the Bible

Author : David Ben-Gurion
Publisher : Jonathan David Company, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Ben-Gurion Looks at the Bible written by David Ben-Gurion and published by Jonathan David Company, Incorporated. This book was released on 1972 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The addresses presented in this volume were delivered by the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel to a select group of students who comprised the "Prime Minister's Bible Study Circle." The issues with which Mr. Ben-Gurion wrestles, and the resolutions he proposes, will be of interest to all those interested in the sacred text, regardless of religion. Originally published in Hebrew in 1969.

Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry

Author : Ariel Feldestein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134193246
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Book Synopsis Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry by : Ariel Feldestein

Download or read book Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry written by Ariel Feldestein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on archival material, this intriguing book examines David Ben-Gurion’s influence on the relationship between the state of Israel, the Zionist Organization and American Jewry between 1948 and 1963 when he served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The author discusses how Ben-Gurion was largely instrumental in forming Israel’s policies throughout the first two decades of the country’s existence and, due to his position, personality and prestige, he was able to influence the fashioning of political structures as well as their content. The book discusses both the political motives of the leaders and the ideological discourse, in order to understand their dependency and to highlight their significance in the terms Diaspora and exile, the centrality of the State of Israel, and the role played by the Jews of America. As such this will be of great interest to scholars of Middle East Studies, Jewish Studies, and ethnicity and nationalism.

David Ben-Gurion, in His Own Words

Author : David Ben-Gurion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book David Ben-Gurion, in His Own Words written by David Ben-Gurion and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust

Author : Shabtai Teveth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust written by Shabtai Teveth and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1996 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book deals with ben Gurion and supposition that he allowed the Holocaust to acquire a Jewish State

The War of the Zionist Giants

Author : Nick Reynold
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498559611
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The War of the Zionist Giants written by Nick Reynold and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two major forces in the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948 were David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann. While each “giant” led very different lives, their paths crossed, or often clashed, as they became major influencers on the world stage. They worked together to bring about an independent Jewish state while simultaneously clashing over different political styles and beliefs. Weizmann became the President of the Zionist Organization while Ben-Gurion worked to oppose him as much as possible. This book describes the battle between two very strong and determined “giants” which took place over 32 years. The author explores the lives of each man and what factors led to their differing political beliefs. Reynold also examines the specific instances in which the two clashed or worked together to bring about change.

David Ben-Gurion, the State of Israel and the Arab World, 1949-1956

Author : Zaki Shalom
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book David Ben-Gurion, the State of Israel and the Arab World, 1949-1956 written by Zaki Shalom and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialist in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Israel's defense policy, Shalom (Ben-Gurion U.) looks at the first prime minister's views on politics and security and the forces that shaped his positions regarding the Arab world between the War of Independence and the Sinai campaign. He highlights the fundamental difference between political theory and the praxis of applications, and finds in the gap the truism that no policy can reflect in absolute terms a leader's purity of will and aspiration. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR