Israel Is Real An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History

Name: Israel Is Real An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History
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ISBN: 9780374177782

ISBN-10: 0374177783

ISBN-13: 9780374177782

Edition: 2009

Authors: Rich Cohen

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There are many books about Israel, but none like this. From Rich Cohen, the author of the acclaimed bestsellersTough Jews,The Avengers, andSweet and Low, comes a new approach to a story we thought we knew. Breaking through the heated polemics and intractable politics,Israel Is Realis a fresh voice, a tale of people and ideas, of the background of present-day Israel. Cohen relates Israel's story as that of a place long ago destroyed and transformed into an idea . . . and which, sixty years ago, was retransformed into a place, and therefore into something that can once again be destroyed. From the medieval false prophets, to the nineteenth-century Zionists, and on to presentday figures like…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 7/21/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Rich Cohen has written for The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, among many other publications. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and recently cowrote a filmscript. He lives in New York City.