Balfour and Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Emergence of Israel

by Geoffrey Lewis

Book Overview

On November 2, 1917, Arthur Balfour, then Foreign Secretary, wrote to Lord Rothschild to say that the British Government viewed with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. The consequences of this statement have reverberated throughout the world in a crescendo of bitterness and violence ever since. It interposed a European (mainly Russian) Jewish cultural idea in an Arab land and it led eventually to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847250408
• ISBN13: 9781847250407
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"