Dawn of the Promised Land: The Creation of Israel

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This is a collection of oral histories of those who travelled from all over the world to make a new life and nation in Israel. Ben Wicks is the author of "No Time to Wave Goodbye".
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This is a collection of oral histories of those who travelled from all over the world to make a new life and nation in Israel. Ben Wicks is the author of "No Time to Wave Goodbye".
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The most valuable aspect of Canadian journalist Wicks's book about the founding of the Jewish state is the first-person accounts of what it was like to emigrate to mandate Palestine. Wicks's interviewees tell in uninterrupted monologues their experiences of travel by ship or over land, the work they did when they arrived, their living conditions, and how they participated in the nascent army. These tales of triumph over adversity are spliced into a disjointed narrative of international and Zionist politics. Neither new information nor a fresh perspective is added to this history, which Wicks introduces with the 1917 Balfour declaration and concludes with the 1948 war, and which includes the illegal immigration movement and the development of the Jewish Defense Force. Complicated truths are sacrificed throughout by the narrative need to tell a neat success story, for example, that the kibbutz "remains a major way of life in Israel to this day." Wicks subtly perpetuates a hierarchy in which German Jews were the most progressive population in the land and Sephardic Jews and Arabs could only benefit from their interventions. Arabs living close to Jews, for instance, "quickly realised that their lives need not remain rooted in past traditions." This is an unexamined and sentimental account of a story that has been told better in many other books. 8 pages b&w photos. Sept.
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An overly brief history of the struggle for a Jewish state, from the British conquest of Palestine during WWI (1917) through Israel's war of independence and its first year of nationhood (1949). Canadian journalist Wicks (No Time to Wave Goodbye, 1989) combed through memoirs by figures well known (e.g., Shimon Peres, who also wrote the bookþs introduction) and obscure, and intertwines them here with a narrative account of the history of the yishuv (Jewish community in mandatory Palestine) and the new state. He favors autobiographical reports by individuals from English-speaking countries, and relies too little on Hebrew testimonials. But Wicks does offer excerpts from some particularly vivid narratives about refugees' struggles before, during, and after the Holocaust to enter Palestine. For example, one Holocaust survivor recounts a 1947 voyage by foot from her native Vienna to Italy that included an 11-hour trek during the night over the Brenner Pass. Also important and revealing is an accountþat four pages, the book's longestþof the difficult adjustments faced by Jews from Middle Eastern countries in the new state's development towns. Upon arriving in Qiryat Ono from Iraq, a refugee recalls, "we were each given a bed, some thin blankets, a loaf and a few cans of food. At night, we saw all kinds of creeping creatures on the thick material the tent was made of
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  • ISBN-13: 9780786863228
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 9/28/1998
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 9.55 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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