Daniel Gordis

Impossible Takes Longer (eBook, ePUB)

75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE RABBI SACKS BOOK PRIZE

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 Awardwinning 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 place of extraordinary success and maddening disappointment, a story of both unprecedented human triumph and great suffering.

Now, as the country marks its seventy-fifth anniversary, Gordis asks: Has Israel fulfilled the dreams of its founders? Using Israel's Declaration of Independence as his measure, Gordis provides a thorough, balanced perspective on how the Israel of today exceeds the country's original aspirations and how it has fallen short. He discusses the often-overlooked reasons for the establishment of the State of Israel; the flourishing of Jewish and Israeli culture; the nation's economy and its transformative tech sector; the Israeli-Arab conflict; the distinct form of Judaism that has emerged in the Jewish state; the nation's complex relationship with the Diaspora; and much more.

Offering new angles of thinking about Israel, Gordis brings moderation and clarity to the prevailing discourse. And through weighing Israel's successes, critiquing its failures, and acknowledging its inherent contradictions, he ultimately suggests that the Jewish state is a success far beyond anything its founders could have imagined.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063239456
• Artikelnr.: 64305816

Autorenporträt

Daniel Gordis is the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem CollegeIsrael's first liberal arts collegewhich he helped found in 2007. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and political currents in Israel, he has twice won the National Jewish Book Award, including the prize for Book of the Year for Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn. Raised and educated in the United States, he has been living in Jerusalem since 1998.