Portrait of the father of a nation – The Tel Aviv Review

 

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Portrait of the father of a nation

Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel’s most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her newly published biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding prime minister, with host Gilad Halpern.

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Hebrew literature and the origins of Israeli malaise

Yigal Schwarz, professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses his latest book, The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity, which analyzes Israel’s unique conceptualization of place through five canonical literary works.

 

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1 comment on “Portrait of the father of a nation – The Tel Aviv Review

  1. Matt McLaughlin says:

    Feb 9th 2015 will mark the 100th anniversary of Israel’s founder Ben-Gurion

    soliciting Jamal ‘The Butcher’ Pasha for Ottoman residency and a place in Pasha’s army to fight the British.

    He was arrested as an insufferable revolutionary.

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