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03269aam a2200373 i 4500 001 EC2BB92EE97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230503010033 008 230325t20232023nyuaf b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2022204839 020 $a 0063239442 020 $a 9780063239449 035 $a (OCoLC)1373992481 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c LNC $e rda $d LNC $d OJ4 $d IMT $d SILO 050 14 $a DS126.5 $b .G6524 2023 082 04 $a 305.892/405694 $2 23/eng/20230322 100 1 $a Gordis, Daniel, $e author. 245 10 $a Impossible takes longer : $b 75 years after its creation, has Israel fulfilled its founders' dreams? / $c Daniel Gordis. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, $c [2023] 300 $a xxxvii, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-327) and index. 505 0 $a Preface: A Jewish national liberation movement -- Part I "I broke the bars of your yoke". Zionism transforms a nation -- "We hereby declare" : first, existence -- "We shall still see goodness" : healing Jewish heartbreak -- "Grounded in our national culture" : restoring a nation -- Part II "Must the sword devour forever?". Conflict and the Jewish state -- "Lest the sword fall from our hands" : Jews defend themselves -- "The day of vengeance will come" : wars with neighboring states -- "Liberation" or "Nakba" : Palestinians, land, legitimacy -- Part III "As envisioned by the prophets". The complicated care of Israel's democracy -- "I'm for Jewish democracy" : ethnic democracy and its discontents -- "Do what is just and right" : the "other in Israeli society -- "A life of honest toil" : from food rationing to tech powerhouse -- Part IV "The Jewish state" or "The state of the Jews"?. Jewish statehood, Jewish flourishing -- "Trust in the rock of Israel" : Judaism in the state of the Jews -- "From the four corners of the earth" : Israel and the diaspora -- "The world shall fill with bounty" : Israel and humankind -- Conclusion: "Half dust, half heaven". 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Israel $x History. 651 0 $a Israel $x Civilization. 650 0 $a Jews $x Civilization. 650 0 $a Arab-Israeli conflict. 941 $a 3 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509012027.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240104010444.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230503013512.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EC2BB92EE97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search