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On Israel's seventy-fifth anniversary comes a nuanced examination of the country's past, present, and future, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award?winning author of Israel.In 1948, Israel's founders had much more in mind than the creation of a state. They sought not mere sovereignty but also a ?national home for the Jewish people, ? where Jewish life would be transformed. Did they succeed? The state they made, says Daniel Gordis, is a ...

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Published on the country's seventy-fifth anniversary comes a nuanced and thoughtful examination of Israel's past, present, and future, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award?winning author of IsraelIn 1948, Israel's founders had in mind much more than creating a state. They sought not mere sovereignty but also the creation of a ?national home for the Jewish people, ? where Jewish life would be transformed and where a ?new Jew? would take...

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Praise for Coming Together, Coming Apart"Interesting conversation is Israel's most ingratiating commodity, and this is an especially interesting one. To read Coming Together, Coming Apart is to be engaged in an ongoing dialogue with one of Israel's most thoughtful observers-an American who made Israel his home, despite its imperfections and dangers. Gordis's conversational narrative is irresistible."-Alan dershowitz, author of The Case for Isr...

From National Jewish Book Award Winner and author of Israel, a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reimagines the past, present, and future of Jewish lifeRelations between the American Jewish community and Israel are at an all-time nadir. Since Israel's founding seventy years ago, particularly as memory of the Holocaust and of Israel's early vulnerability has receded, the divide has grown only wider. Most e...

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From National Jewish Book Award Winner and author of Israel comes a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reimagines the past, present, and future of Jewish life.

Why Israel's greatest weakness is its greatest strength, and what its supporters and enemies can learn from its success Israel's critics in the West insist that no country founded on a single religion or culture can stay democratic and prosperous-but they're wrong. In The Promise of Israel, Daniel Gordis points out that Israel has defied that conventional wisdom. It has provided its citizens infinitely greater liberty and prosperity than anyo...

Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future? The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else and whether they ought to persevere. Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in Saving Israel, he outlines how. * 2009 National...

Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel's underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in 1913, Begin was a youthful admirer of the Revisionist Zionist Ze'ev Jabotinsky and soon became a leader within Jabotinsky's Betar movement. A powerful orator and mesmerizing public figure, Beg...

The first accessible yet comprehensive history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from a highly esteemed public intellectual living and writing in Jerusalem.

Israel is a tiny state, and yet since its creation, it has captured the world’s attention, earned its admiration, and, often, been the object of its opprobrium. Why is so much of the international community focused on a small country like Israel? Why are Israelis so deeply divided on so many key issues? Why does Israel make the decisions it does? And what lies in its future?Weaving together historical documents, letters, and interviews with hi...

Examines the concept of the Jews as a separate people. This book looks at the role of Jews and Judaism in the modern world and the overall concept of being Jewish in a non-Jewish world.

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