Rich Cohen: Israel is Real, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

There are many books about Israel but none like this. From Rich Cohen the author of the acclaimed Tough Jews The Avengers and Sweet and Low comes a new approach to a story we thought we knew. Breaking through the heated polemics and intractable politics Israel Is Real is a fresh voice a tale of people and ideas of the background of present-day Israel. Cohen relates Israel's story as that of a place long ago destroyed and transformed into an idea . . . and which sixty years ago was retransformed into a place and therefore into something that can once again be destroyed. From the medieval false prophets to the nineteenth-century Zionists and on to present-day figures like Ariel Sharon Cohen tells the stories of the people obsessed with this fine line between place and idea creation and destruction. He reclaims from obscurity a multitude of figures marginalised by history but whose lives are key to any real understanding of Israel.