Description
A modern classic, the most authoritative and readable history of the Jewish state ever published, is now extensively updated, providing readers with the full story of Israel from its early-19th-century ideological beginnings to the Lebanon war of 2006.
Author: Howard M. Sachar
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 05/15/2007
Pages: 1270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 2.30d
ISBN13: 9780375711329
ISBN10: 0375711325
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | Israel & Palestine
- History | Jewish | General
Author: Howard M. Sachar
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 05/15/2007
Pages: 1270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 2.30d
ISBN13: 9780375711329
ISBN10: 0375711325
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | Israel & Palestine
- History | Jewish | General
About the Author
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and reared in Champaign, Illinois, HOWARD MORLEY SACHAR received his undergraduate education at Swarthmore and took his graduate degrees at Harvard. He has taught extensively in the field of modern European history, and lived in the Middle East for six years, two of them on fellowship, the rest as founder-director of Brandeis University's Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem. Dr. Sachar has contributed to many scholarly journals and is the author of thirteen other books.