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978-1-4422-6596-7 • Hardback • May 2017 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
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Colin Shindler was the first professor of Israel Studies in the UK and is emeritus professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of The Rise of the Israeli Right, winner of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Book Prize for 2016.
Introduction- The Making of Modern Israel
Tel Aviv:Zerach Barnett and the Founding of the First Hebrew CityWorld War I and the Jewish Question The Left and the Right: A 1933 Murder Mystery: The Killing of Haim ArlosoroffAvraham Stern and his ‘Gang’- The Nation-Builders
In the Beginning: Theodor HerzlChaim Weizmann and Vladimir JabotinskyDavid Gruen from Plonsk - The Zionists and Pre-War Nationalism
The GermansThe ItaliansThe IrishThe Ukrainians- The Road to Independence
World War II and ZionismThe AftermathThe Debate over PartitionArieh Handler: Seeing Ben-Gurion proclaim the State of IsraelHow British Jews reacted to the Rise of Israel- Israel in the Eyes of the History Makers
Disraeli and a mythical ZionChurchill and the Jewish StateStalin and Soviet Jews: 1948-1953The Kennedys and the Promised LandRichard Nixon and the Yom Kippur War- The Slow Disintegration of Labour Zionism
Imperialism, Zionism and Arab NationalismLabour Dissension after 1967Yigal AllonMoshe DayanAbba Eban- The Ascendency of the Right
The Persona of Menahem BeginBegin in PolandThe Irgun and afterAbba Ahimeir and the Attraction of FascismThe Influence of other Struggles- Israel and Pariah Regimes
Turning away from the pastThe AfrikanersThe ArgentiniansThe Chileans- Evangelical Zionists
The Legacies of Christianity and IslamThe American Religious Right and the LikudEvangelical Enthusiasm for Israel- The Struggle for Soviet Jewry
The Genesis of the Jewish ProblemHow the Soviet Jewry Movement StartedThe Change in Israeli policy and Jewish ActivismThe First Trials of Soviet JewsThe Village of Ilyinka- Human Rights and the USSR
Marxist-Leninist ZionistsThe Use and Abuse of Political Psychiatry in the USSRSolzhenitsyn and Sakharov on the Jewish QuestionSpeaking to Sharansky- The Life and Death of Yitzhak Rabin
Rabin’s Resurrection 1992Rabin’s Election and GovernmentThe Incitement by the RightThe Killing and its JustificationThe Aftermath- The Mystery of Ariel Sharon
Mr ‘Inconstituency’Who was Ariel Sharon?From Russia with LoveThe Drift to the RightThe Twilight Years From Mr Hyde to Dr Jekyll- The Islamist Rejectionists
Hamas and Palestinian ResistanceNegotiating with Hamas: An Exchange with Uri AvneriGaza under Hamas RuleHezbollah in the North- In the Company of Critics
Critical FriendsMargaret Thatcher, British Jews and IsraelNye Bevan and Zion- Different Diaspora Voices
A History of DissentAfter 1945Jewish Apostates?Uncivil WarA Plethora of Jewish Critics- Non-Jewish Jews and Israel
Isaac Deutscher and Elisha Ben-AbuyaRalph Miliband and Jewish RealityEric Hobsbawm and 1940The Long March of the Corbynistas- Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions
The Campaign and its OriginsThe Anti-Normalisation CampaignApartheid IsraelJewish Reaction to the Boycott- Twenty First Century Politics
The Rise of the Far RightIn Government with Lieberman and BennettSupporting the RightRecognising Israel as a Jewish State
The Hebrew Republic can and should be read by two different publics. Lay leaders will find a magisterial, insightful, panoramic look at Israel's history and politics embedded in the broader context of modern Jewish history and the dominant global trends of the time. Specialists will find a series of original and innovative essays on some of the most significant aspects of Israeli history and life. A must read; a rewarding read.
— Itamar Rabinovich, President of The Israel Institute, Washington and Tel Aviv
Colin Shindler is a celebrated historian of the rise of Zionism and Israel; an author of important books on the Israeli Right; and a fearless moral, intellectual voice against oppression and hypocrisy. This collection of his reviews and essays is a veritable treasure trove of information and critical observations ranging over the movements, personalities and challenges of Jewish and Israeli history of the past 100 years. It is a delight to read.
— Jeremy Rosen, Chairman of the Faculty of Comparative Religion, Wilrijk; Rabbi of the Persian Center, Manhattan.
With an impressive command of his terrain and in lucid prose devoid of academic jargon, Colin Shindler guides the reader along the road from early Zionist idealism to contemporary Machiavellian politics. En route, he illuminates not only the highway of history, but also numerous little-known by-ways. Journeying with him, the reader encounters a wide variety of individuals, pivotal moments, political movements and counter-movements which coalesce into a panorama of political theory and practice over the past two centuries.
— Alice Shalvi, professor emerita of English Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The subtitle “Israel’s Return to History” represents a coherent collection of in-depth articles - at times chronological and at times focusing on crucial issues. Studying Modern Israel from inside and outside, Shindler explains its unfolding centrality for the dispersed Jewish people. This book is not only researching but also interprets the contending analyses of contradictions between the success of a dynamic state and its growing political isolation.
— Edward Kaufman, University of Maryland and Haifa University
Colin Shindler has produced a rich compendium of insights into Israel’s genesis, its early struggles and controversies, and its current challenges. He draws not just on his huge store of knowledge, but on an ability to convey the complexities of Israel and the Middle East, and of the wider political debate they generate, with depth and subtlety.
— Edward Temko, former editor of the Jewish Chronicle