· National Jewish Book Award winner Gordis arcs through the entire life of Menachem Begin, from his service in the Free Polish Army and the terrorist paramilitary Irgun in Palestine, to his rivalry with David Ben-Gurion and emergence as Israel's sixth prime minister, which netted him the Nobel prize for his rapprochement with Egyptian President Anwar www.doorway.ru: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 11 rows · As Daniel Gordis reminds us throughout this well-documented, footnote-filled page-turner, /5(). Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul. Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel’s underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in , Begin was a youthful admirer of the Revisionist Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky and soon became a .
Menachem Begin — maker of peace with Egypt, Nobel Prize winner, welcomer of the Ethiopian Jews to Israel — was shunned by David Ben-Gurion and renounced as a terrorist. In this sympathetic biography, Daniel Gordis, a prominent American-Israeli author and educator, shows Begin to be a bold leader and tireless fighter for klal Yisrael, the entire. Menachem Begin: the battle for Israel's soul by Gordis, Daniel, author. Publication date Topics Begin, Menachem, , Revisionist Zionists, Prime ministers Daniel Gordis's perceptive biography gives us new insight into a remarkable political figure whose influence continues to be felt throughout the world"--From publisher. "Daniel Gordis's new and wonderfully written biography of Menachem Begin makes the case for a fresh look at the Israeli prime minister who made peace with Egypt. The portrait he paints of Begin is that of a man of singular devotion not just to the State of Israel, but also to the Jewish people.
Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul By Daniel Gordis Schocken, pages, $ Menachem Begin was one of the more complex personalities in Zionist history. Begin was buried not alongside Israel’s prime ministers, but alongside the Irgun comrades who died in the struggle to create the Jewish national home to which he had devoted his life. Daniel Gordis’s perceptive biography gives us new insight into a remarkable political figure whose influence continues to be felt both within Israel and. As Daniel Gordis reminds us throughout this well-documented, footnote-filled page-turner, Menachem Begin was the most Jewish of all the prime ministers of Israel. The murder of his family and his boundless love for the Jewish people were the twin motivators throughout his life leading him to dare the difficult and achieve the impossible.
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