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1949, the First Israelis

by Tom Segev

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The founding of Israel in 1948 - one of the seminal events of the century - offers a dramatic narrative with few parallels in modern history. In 1949, a controversial best-seller in Israel, Tom Segev draws on thousands of declassified documents along... Read more
The founding of Israel in 1948 - one of the seminal events of the century - offers a dramatic narrative with few parallels in modern history. In 1949, a controversial best-seller in Israel, Tom Segev draws on thousands of declassified documents along with personal diaries and correspondence to reconstruct the unvarnished story of Israel's first years. Segev reveals the lofty aspirations that guided the state's leaders as well as the darker side of the Zionist utopia: the friction between the early settlers and the immigrants; the lack of good-faith negotiations with the Arabs; the clash between religious and secular factions; the daily collision of the Zionist myth with the severe realities of life in the new state. Less

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File size6.00x9.00x1.10inches
Print pages379
PublisherFree Press
Publication date September 5, 2000
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780029291801
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Tom Segev
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Tom Segev is one of Israel's most celebrated historians. His works include The Seventh Million; 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East; Simon Wiesenthal; and One Palestin...

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