Israel Is Real
By:Rich Cohen
Published on 2009-07-21 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|It's a great irony that Israel was more secure as an idea than it's ever been as a nation with an army.| In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it—by taking what had been a national religion, identified with a particular place, and turning it into an idea. Jews no longer needed Jerusalem to be Jews. Whenever a Jew studied—wherever he was—he would be in the holy city. In this way, a few rabbis turned a real city into a city of the mind; in this way, they turned the Temple into a book and preserved their faith. Though you can burn a city, you cannot sack an idea or kill a book. But in our own time, Zionists have turned the book back into a temple. And unlike an idea, a temple can be destroyed. The creation of Israel has made Jews vulnerable in a way they have not been for two thousand years. In Israel Is Real, Rich Cohen's superb new history of the Zionist idea and the Jewish state—the history of a nation chronicled as if it were the biography of a person—he brings to life dozens of fascinating figures, each driven by the same impulse: to reach Jerusalem. From false messiahs such as David Alroy (Cohen calls him the first superhero, with his tallis as a cape) and Sabbatai Zevi, who led thousands on a mad spiritual journey, to the early Zionists (many of them failed journalists), to the iconic figures of modern Jewish Sparta, David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, and Ariel Sharon, Cohen shows how all these lives together form a single story, a single life. In this unique book, Cohen examines the myth of the wandering Jew, the paradox of Jewish power (how can you be both holy and nuclear?), and the triumph and tragedy of the Jewish state—how the creation of modern Israel has changed what it means to be a Jew anywhere.
This Book was ranked at 27 by Google Books for keyword in the company of crazies.
Book ID of Israel Is Real's Books is Vlh7NkD7RHwC, Book which was written byRich Cohenhave ETAG "T3NPieZkYhM"
Book which was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux since 2009-07-21 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781429930574 and ISBN 10 Code is 1429930578
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is false
Book which have "400 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory
This Book was rated by 1 Raters and have average rate at "1.0"
This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true
Book Preview
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar