1949 the First Israelis Segev Tom Paperback
1949 the First Israelis Segev Tom Paperback Renowned historian Tom Segev strips away national myths to present a critical and clear-eyed chronicle of the year immediately following Israel's…
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1949 the First Israelis Segev Tom Paperback
Renowned historian Tom Segev strips away national myths to present a critical and clear-eyed chronicle of the year immediately following Israel's foundation."Required reading for all who want to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict...the best analysis...of the problems of trying to integrate so many people from such diverse cultures into one political body" (The New York Times Book Review). It was a landmark book that told a different story of the country's early years, one that wasn't taught in schools or shown in popular culture. Historian and journalist Tom Segev stirred up controversy in Israel upon the first publication of 1949.
The new country of Israel faced challenges on all sides. Rather than painting the idealized picture of the Israel's founding in 1948, after the wreckage of the Holocaust, Segev reveals gritty underside behind the early years. Day-to-day life was severe,