Israel: the first forty years

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ISRAEL1 THE FIRST FORTY YEARS
Introduction by Abba Eban
When all is said and written Israel's rebirth is a great and noble adventure. Never before have a people, a land and a language long separated and dispersed come together again in a great sweep of historical continuity. The hard dilemmas that Israel will have to resolve within the few coming years will, at least, be confronted from a condition of greater strength and confidence than the Jewish people has ever commanded throughout its history.
— Abba Eban
April of 1988 marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. It was an astounding triumph, which brought the Jews to their homeland after centuries in exile and within a few short years after the Holocaust.
The Israelis set to work modernizing the ancient land, irrigating the desert soil, building the most up-to-date industries. Yet even so, the old struggles came to the fore: the life of the new nation was taken up with enemies at every... Tovább

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ISRAEL1 THE FIRST FORTY YEARS
Introduction by Abba Eban
When all is said and written Israel's rebirth is a great and noble adventure. Never before have a people, a land and a language long separated and dispersed come together again in a great sweep of historical continuity. The hard dilemmas that Israel will have to resolve within the few coming years will, at least, be confronted from a condition of greater strength and confidence than the Jewish people has ever commanded throughout its history.
— Abba Eban
April of 1988 marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. It was an astounding triumph, which brought the Jews to their homeland after centuries in exile and within a few short years after the Holocaust.
The Israelis set to work modernizing the ancient land, irrigating the desert soil, building the most up-to-date industries. Yet even so, the old struggles came to the fore: the life of the new nation was taken up with enemies at every border, with mobilizing of armed forces and, everywhere, the haunting, grim spectre of war.
Israel's history can be divided by its wars. The Six Day War was the most formative of all. "Most Israelis," according to Abba Eban, "divide their experience between what happened before that date and what ensued thereafter."
Here, in an extraordinary history, Israel: The First Forty Years, this post-World War II Jewish life is explored in a classic collection of Magnum photographs. They are the work of some of the century's finest photographers, including Robert Capa, Micha Bar-Am, Leonard Freed, and Inge Morath. Their subjects are among the most emotive that can be found in this century — the continuing saga of immigration; settlement in a new land; the community of the kibbutz; the sudden horror of war; the faces of people — from Europe, from Africa, from Arabia. . . . Beyond these is another dimension that is missing in the story of any other country: the sense of the past that is involved in the Jewish faith, and the sense of destiny that is inseparable from Israel's existence. Vissza