David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance [Paperback]

A reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel.This book is a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel from the perspective of the twenty-first century. Based on a large number of records heretofore not published in English, the book describes and analyzes the man and his unique period of ascendance, which he and his peers described as the Jewish Renaissance, in a new, multi-dimensional fashion. Combining his role and the realities of his time in the Middle East and the global arena, which was missing in earlier publications, the book finally explains Ben-Gurion's tragic demise.This book is a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel from the perspective of the twenty-first century. Based on a large number of records heretofore not published in English, the book describes and analyzes the man and his unique period of ascendance, which he and his peers described as the Jewish Renaissance, in a new, multi-dimensional fashion. Combining his role and the realities of his time in the Middle East and the global arena, which was missing in earlier publications, the book finally explains Ben-Gurion's tragic demise.This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurions role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist renaissance, of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurions Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now  after the dust surrounding Israels founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurions downfall  this book presents a fresh look at this statesman-intellectual and his success and tragic failures during a unique period of time that he and his peers described as the Jewish renaissancl##