The Hebrew Republic

Introduction

1. The Making of Modern Israel

Tel Aviv:Zerach Barnett and the Founding of the First Hebrew City
World War I and the Jewish Question
The Left and the Right: A 1933 Murder Mystery: The Killing of Haim Arlosoroff
Avraham Stern and his ‘Gang’

1. The Nation-Builders

In the Beginning: Theodor Herzl
Chaim Weizmann and Vladimir Jabotinsky
David Gruen from Plonsk

1. The Zionists and Pre-War Nationalism

The Germans
The Italians
The Irish
The Ukrainians

1. The Road to Independence

World War II and Zionism
The Aftermath
The Debate over Partition
Arieh Handler: Seeing Ben-Gurion proclaim the State of Israel
How British Jews reacted to the Rise of Israel

1. Israel in the Eyes of the History Makers

Disraeli and a mythical Zion
Churchill and the Jewish State
Stalin and Soviet Jews: 1948-1953
The Kennedys and the Promised Land
Richard Nixon and the Yom Kippur War

1. The Slow Disintegration of Labour Zionism

Imperialism, Zionism and Arab Nationalism
Labour Dissension after 1967
Yigal Allon
Moshe Dayan
Abba Eban

1. The Ascendency of the Right

The Persona of Menahem Begin
Begin in Poland
The Irgun and after
Abba Ahimeir and the Attraction of Fascism
The Influence of other Struggles

1. Israel and Pariah Regimes

Turning away from the past
The Afrikaners
The Argentinians
The Chileans

1. Evangelical Zionists

The Legacies of Christianity and Islam
The American Religious Right and the Likud
Evangelical Enthusiasm for Israel

1. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry

The Genesis of the Jewish Problem
How the Soviet Jewry Movement Started
The Change in Israeli policy and Jewish Activism
The First Trials of Soviet Jews
The Village of Ilyinka

1. Human Rights and the USSR

Marxist-Leninist Zionists
The Use and Abuse of Political Psychiatry in the USSR
Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov on the Jewish Question
Speaking to Sharansky

1. The Life and Death of Yitzhak Rabin

Rabin’s Resurrection 1992
Rabin’s Election and Government
The Incitement by the Right
The Killing and its Justification
The Aftermath

1. The Mystery of Ariel Sharon

Mr ‘Inconstituency’
Who was Ariel Sharon?
From Russia with Love
The Drift to the Right
The Twilight Years
From Mr Hyde to Dr Jekyll

1. The Islamist Rejectionists

Hamas and Palestinian Resistance
Negotiating with Hamas: An Exchange with Uri Avneri
Gaza under Hamas Rule
Hezbollah in the North

1. In the Company of Critics

Critical Friends
Margaret Thatcher, British Jews and Israel
Nye Bevan and Zion

1. Different Diaspora Voices

A History of Dissent
After 1945
Jewish Apostates?
Uncivil War
A Plethora of Jewish Critics

1. Non-Jewish Jews and Israel

Isaac Deutscher and Elisha Ben-Abuya
Ralph Miliband and Jewish Reality
Eric Hobsbawm and 1940
The Long March of the Corbynistas

1. Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions

The Campaign and its Origins
The Anti-Normalisation Campaign
Apartheid Israel
Jewish Reaction to the Boycott

1. Twenty First Century Politics

The Rise of the Far Right
In Government with Lieberman and Bennett
Supporting the Right
Recognising 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.