| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 383 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"An obsessive quest to understand the Jewish nation and its history"--Jacket. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-360) and index. |
| Summary |
In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it--by taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Jews no longer needed Jerusalem to be Jews. Whenever a Jew studied--wherever he was--he would be in the holy city. But in our own time, Zionists have turned the book back into a temple. In Rich Cohen's new history of the Zionist idea and the Jewish state--the history of a nation chronicled as if it were the biography of a person--he brings to life dozens of figures, each driven by the same impulse: to reach Jerusalem. From false messiahs to the early Zionists, to the iconic figures of David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir Cohen shows how all these lives together form a single story. He examines the myth of the wandering Jew, the paradox of Jewish power, and the triumph and tragedy of the Jewish state.--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
The fire -- The vineyard -- The son of the star -- A city in a mirror -- Messiahs : true or false? -- The ghetto Jew -- House hunting -- The flâneur -- The night squads -- Killing Adolph again -- First good war in a long, long time -- The new Jew -- God made the world in six days -- The Jerusalem syndrome -- The surprise -- Israel is too real -- Ninth of Av. |
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Jews -- History.
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Jews. |
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History. |
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Cohen, Rich -- Travel -- Israel.
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Cohen, Rich. |
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Travel. |
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Israel. |
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Israel -- Description and travel.
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| ISBN |
9780374177782 hardcover alkaline paper $27.00 |
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0374177783 hardcover alkaline paper |
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