The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron

The Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as 'an earthquake, ' and its reverberations are still with us. How then did the Right rise to power? What are its origins? Colin Shindler traces this development from the birth of Zionism in cosmopolitan Odessa in the nineteenth century to today's Hebron, a centre of radical Jewish nationalism. He looks at central figures such as Vladimir Jabotinsky, an intellectual and founder of the Revisionist movement and Menahem Begin, the single-minded politician who brought the Right to power in 1977. Both accessible and comprehensive, this book explains the political ideas and philosophies that were the Right's ideological bedrock and the compromises that were made in its journey to government

Author: Colin Shindler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/06/2015
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780521193788

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2016 pg. 1081

About the Author
Shindler, Colin: - Colin Shindler is Emeritus Professor at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies and the founding chairman of the European Association of Israel Studies. He is the author of eight books on Israel including the bestselling History of Modern Israel (Cambridge, 2008 and 2013), which has been translated into Italian, Polish and Estonian.