David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance

Shlomo Aronson author Naftali Greenwood translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Nov '10

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A reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel.

This book is a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel from the perspective of the twenty-first century. The book describes and analyzes the man and his unique period of ascendance, which he and his peers described as the 'Jewish Renaissance'.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.

'Aronson creates an illuminating portrait that challenges the recent litany of attacks that have become standard fare in the relentlessly negative discussions of Israel. His sympathetic rehabilitation of Ben-Gurion is also a timely and intricate refutation of its critics.' Jerusalem Post

ISBN: 9780521197489

Dimensions: 246mm x 165mm x 30mm

Weight: 820g

476 pages