Author: Mark Tessler Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253013461 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1040
Book Description
Mark Tessler's highly praised, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the earliest times to the present—updated through the first years of the 21st century—provides a constructive framework for understanding recent developments and assessing the prospects for future peace. Drawing upon a wide array of documents and on research by Palestinians, Israelis, and others, Tessler assesses the conflict on both the Israelis' and the Palestinians' terms. New chapters in this expanded edition elucidate the Oslo peace process, including the reasons for its failure, and the political dynamics in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza at a critical time of transition.
Author: Jonathan Goldstein Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131745605X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 347
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study examines patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately AD 1100 to 1949.
Author: Hershel Edelheit Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429721048 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 673
Book Description
This handbook and dictionary aims to provide the reader with a general overview of Zionist history and historiography, to tabulate all data on Zionism, and to gather in one source as many terms dealing directly or indirectly with Zionism and Jewish nationalism as possible.
Author: Arie Morgenstern Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0195305787 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 299
Book Description
Arie Morgenstern argues the roots of modern Zionism go backy to a group of messianic jews in the early 1800s. reader Morgenstern shows how the belief in the messianic modern significance of the year 1840 spurred immigration to Israel by Jews from all over the world.