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  • Series: Jewish Encounters Series
  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Schocken; First Edition edition (March 4, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805243127
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805243123
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.1 x 8.8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsRighting History
By David Shulman on March 23, 2014
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The history of Israel has largely been written from a secular Labor-Zionist or a Palestinian perspective. In those histories Menachem Begin has either been air-brushed out or vilified as a terrorist by Jew and Arab alike. Daniel Gordis a rabbi from a family of rabbis and vice president of Shalem College in Israel makes a huge contribution in correcting the historical record. Simply put, although Menachem Begin was not the George Washington of Israel, he certainly was a founding father and was it not for him the State of Israel might not have been brought into being.

Begin was born in 1913 in the town of Brisk (now Brest in Belarus) under grey Polish skies compared to the sunny Mediterranean skies most of the early Zionist leadership who were either born in then Palestine or arrived there when very young. As a result Begin stood out as Polish formal compared to Israeli casual. Begin did not arrive in Palestine until he was 30. As an aside his birth was midwifed by Ariel Sharon's grandmother. Begin learned his Zionism from his father and the everyday Polish anti-Semitism he witnessed while growing up. He also, unlike the Zionists in Palestine, grows up religious and very knowledgeable in the biblical texts. In time he would become, according to Gordis, the most Jewish of Israeli prime ministers. As a teenager he became a convert to the Revisionist Zionism of the charismatic Vladimir Jabotinsky and quickly became a leader of its Betar youth group. Revisionist Zionism differed from Labor Zionism in that it was more clear-eyed about the fate of the Jews, in Europe, market oriented versus socialist, and was pessimistic about the prospect of peaceful coexistence with the Arab population living in Palestine.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsreview of 'Menachem Begin: The battle for Israel's Soul'
By Dr. Jack Cohen on March 28, 2014
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For some time now, I have been an avid reader of publications of Dr. Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem.

Dr Gordis' recent publication "Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul",

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805243127/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805243127&linkCode=as2&tag=danielgordis-20 ,

although essentially a biography of Menachem Begin, reads like an exciting adventure, facilitating rapid reading.

Gordis' writing style is flowing, at once concise, lyrical, and often poetical, as he recounts the life of Israel's first Likud Prime Minister, clearly one of Gordis' heroes of the State of Israel.

The book also serves as a detailed history of the State of Israel and is heavily referenced, often with direct quotations.

The quotations of Begin's addresses capture the essence of Begin's oratorical skills, often sending chills down this reader's spine.

The text further provides convincing refutation of many of the terrorist allegations often ascribed to Begin in connection with E.G. bombing of the King David Hotel; hanging of British officers; the Altalena affair.

Begin's devotion to Jewish values, to the Jewish People, and to the State of Israel is well captured by the Pentateuchal quotations Gordis provides in the headings of each chapter. Numerous examples of Begin's traditional `Jewishness' abound. In one instance, Begin urged that on recapture of the Old City, the Israeli cabinet accompanied by the two Chief Rabbis go to the Western Wall to recite the `Shehechiyanu'.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Morally Complicated Legacy
By George P. Wood TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on April 29, 2014
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“The state begins in violence. However lofty the ideals of a new country or a new regime, if it encounters opposition, as most new regimes and countries do, it must fight. If it loses, its ideals join the long catalogue of unfulfilled aspirations.”

Richard Brookhiser wrote those words at the outset of Founding Father, his study of George Washington. I thought of them often as I read Menachem Begin, Daniel Gordis’ new book on the life and character of Israel’s sixth prime minister.

The history of few states has been attended by such perpetual violence as has that of Israel. Its founding Zionist ideal was a response to anti-Semitic violence, at least in part. (The other part was the millennia-long Jewish hope of return to Jerusalem.) Its independence was gained through terrorism against the British Mandate and battles with invading Arab armies. Its history has been beset by life-and-death wars against neighboring Arab countries, not to mention constant conflict with Palestinians. And then there are the fractious relationships among Israelis. (“Two Israelis, three political parties” is a joke I heard decades ago.) The name Israel means “one who wrestles with God,” but the wrestling has been with humans too.

Menachem Begin participated in many of those struggles. He was born on August 16, 1913, in Brest-Litovsk, Poland, to Zionist parents. At age 13, he embraced the distinctive Revisionist Zionism of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky, who advocated the establishment of the Jewish State in Israel—by force, if necessary. He entered his twenties with the Nazis taking power in Germany, and fled Poland after Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. He would eventually lose his parents and brothers in the Holocaust.Read more ›
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