My Promised Land by Ari Shavit

My Promised Land by Ari Shavit

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism's heart.--Ezra Klein, The New York Times

Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

Ari Shavit's riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive?

Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. Shavit's analysis of Israeli history provides a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today's global political landscape.

Ari Shavit is a well-known Israeli journalist and columnist. Shavit was born in Rehovot, Israel, and served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper before studying philosophy at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. He wrote for the progressive weekly Koteret Rashit in the 1980s, served as Chairwoman of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel in the early 1990s, and joined Haaretz in 1995 as an editorial board member. Shavit is also a well-known Israeli public television pundit. He is married and lives in Kfar Shmariahu with his daughter and two boys.

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ISBN 13	9780385521710
ISBN 10	0385521715
Title	My Promised Land
Author	Ari Shavit
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2015-02-03
Number of pages	512
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