Balfour and Weizmann : the Zionist, the zealot and the emergence of Israel / / Geoffrey Lewis

• Autore: Lewis Geoffrey <1929->
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 956.9404
• Soggetto geografico: Palestine History 1917-1948; Great Britain Foreign relations Palestine
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Balfour and Weizmann
• ISBN: 1-282-87544-2; 9786612875441; 1-4411-6469-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827673203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II