Die große Biographie des Staatsgründers David Ben GurionEr ist eine der großen politischen Gestalten des 20. Jahrhunderts: David Grün, geboren 1886 im Russischen Reich, der sich seit seiner Ankunft in Palästina 1906 Ben Gurion nannte. Schon früh engagierte er sich für den Zionismus und die Unabhängigkeit eines jüdischen Staates in Palästina. Als er 1948 schließlich den neuen Staat ausrief, setzte er die Interessen Israels um jeden Preis durch, nicht zuletzt auf Kos...

First published in 2004. It may well be that genius begins where fear ends: not to be afraid to question what is known, not to be afraid to be original. David Ben-Gurion did not try to imitate anyone...He was endowed with a mind that sought out whats was new and was capable of penetrating the deepest recesses. First and foremost, he challenged every Jew who believed it was the fate of Jews to live in the Diaspora, and he believed that the Jews could be a nation of farmers, industrialists, ...

David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) was born in Russian Poland. At the age of fourteen, he and his friends formed a Zionist youth club, and at twenty he went to Palestine to work the land as a pioneer. He helped to organize Bar Giora, a defense group of Jewish settlers. An ardent Zionist, Ben-Gurion worked long and hard for the establishment of the State of Israel. He served as prime minister from 1948 to 1953 and again from 1955 to 1963. The illuminating addresses presented in this volume were d...

Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIsrael’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the “Old Man,” as he was called even then, was already a mythic figure. Peres, who came of age in the cabine...

"David Ben-Gurion: A Life for Israel" is a sweeping, intimate, and deeply human fictionalized narrative biography of one of the most iconic figures in modern Jewish history.Told in Ben-Gurion's own imagined voice, this literary journey traces the life of Israel's founding father from the dusty streets of Plonsk to the desert sands of Sde Boker. Along the way, it captures not only the political battles and historic decisions that shaped the State of Israel, but also...

Além de ser o primeiro primeiro-ministro de Israel e um líder significativo na comunidade judaica - yishuv - na Palestina - Eretz Yisrael antes do estabelecimento do estado, David Ben-Gurion era acima de tudo um entusiasta sionista, expresso através de escritos prolíficos. Ele também manteve diários detalhados de eventos, escreveu livros, cartas, artigos e fez centenas de discursos sobre o povo judeu, o sionismo e Israel. Ele era tanto um historiador judeu quanto um líder político eficaz. ...

This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now - after the dust surrounding Israel's founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurion's down...

Além de ser o primeiro primeiro-ministro de Israel e um líder significativo na comunidade judaica - yishuv - na Palestina - Eretz Yisrael antes do estabelecimento do estado, David Ben-Gurion era acima de tudo um entusiasta sionista, expresso através de escritos prolíficos. Ele também manteve diários detalhados de eventos, escreveu livros, cartas, artigos e fez centenas de discursos sobre o povo judeu, o sionismo e Israel. Ele era tanto um historiador judeu quanto um líder político eficaz. ...

David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886 - December 1, 1973) was the primary national founder of the State of Israel as well as the state's first prime minister. Born in Płońsk, Poland, he immigrated to the Palestine region of the Ottoman Empire in 1906. Adopting the name of Ben-Gurion in 1909, he rose to become the preeminent leader of the Jewish community in British-ruled Mandatory Palestine from 1935 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The following 1967 recording is a fas...

In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel.Kedar provides an explication of the making of Israeli democracy in terms of its institutional-legal structures and social-cultural underpinnings.David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy connects the formal structures of democracy to the fundamental princ...

IMAGENS DE DAVID BEN-GURION, PRIMEIRO MINISTRO DE ISRAEL.

In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel.Kedar provides an explication of the making of Israeli democracy in terms of its institutional-legal structures and social-cultural underpinnings.David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy connects the formal structures of democracy to the fundamental princ...