Jeffrey Herf exposes the political realities that underpinned support for and opposition to Zionist aspirations in Palestine
Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for the first time
It also engages an array of recent sources and angles on intersecting questions of theater and gender in a landmark volume of vital significance to students of women's history
But a contradiction burns at her center: Rina is an atheist
he sees it as part of the universal quest for self-determination
Israel’s Moment: International Support and Opposition for Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 Books Jeffrey Herf exposes the politicalIsrael's Moment is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged in the shadow of World War Two and the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on new research in government, public and private archives, Jeffrey Herf exposes the political realities that underpinned support for and opposition to Zionist aspirations in Palestine. In an unprecedented international account, he explores the role of the United States, the Arab States,