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Autore |
Lewis Geoffrey <1929-> |
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Balfour and Weizmann : the Zionist, the zealot and the emergence of Israel / / Geoffrey Lewis |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-87544-2 |
9786612875441 |
1-4411-6469-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Palestine History 1917-1948 |
Great Britain Foreign relations Palestine |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Maps and Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Jew and Arab; 2 The Dream of Zion; 3 Arthur Balfour; 4 Chaim Weizmann; 5 'Uganda'; 6 England; 7 Palestine before the War; 8 Messianic Times; 9 Placating the French, inciting the Arabs; 10 First Steps to the Balfour Declaration; 11 The Turning Point; 12 It's a Boy!; 13 At the Threshold; 14 Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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On November 2nd 1917 Arthur Balfour, then Foreign Secretary, wrote to Lord Rothschild to say that the British Government viewed with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. It was a statement the consequences of which have reverberated throughout the world in a crescendo of bitterness and violence ever since. It interposed a European (mainly Russian) Jewish cultural idea in an Arab land and it led eventually to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Eleven years before his declaration, Balfour had met the passionate Zionist and émigré chemist Chaim Weizmann while el |
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