I would be very grateful if details about my forthcoming book (pasted below) would be circulated on the hasafran list.
Please advise me With thanks, sincerely Leslie Stein The Making of Modern Israel 1948-1967 By Leslie Stein. Polity Press of Wiley Publishers, 2009, 340 pages Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-7456-4466-0, $25 Within a time frame of only nineteen years, culminating in the Six-Day War, Israel fought three separate wars and within its first four years, thanks to mass immigration, its population doubled. Furthermore, Israel had been confronted with acute economic difficulties, intra Jewish ethnic tensions, a problematic Arab minority and a secular-religious divide. Externally apart from defence issues, Israel faced a generally hostile or, at best, indifferent international community rendering it hard pressed in securing great power patronage or even official sympathy and understanding. Based on a wide range of sources, both in Hebrew and English, this book contains a judicious synthesis of the received literature to yield a reliable, balanced, and novel account of Israel's fateful and turbulent infancy. Above all it provides an antidote to the advocacy of the dismantling of Israel. The book has been warmly endorsed by five prominent scholars/writers. Alan Dowty recommends it "for the general reader and as an excellent introductory text for the classroom." Michael Oren concludes that it is "certain to become an indispensable resource for scholars, decision-makers, and students." Similarly David Pryce-Jones believes that it "ought to become a standard work on the emergence of Israel." Daniel Pipes feels that it "accurately captures the drama, excitement and danger of the fledgling Jewish state's first two decades," while Martin Peretz argues that it is an "elegant and learned book." (For fuller details see the book's site on <http://amazon.com>amazon.com). To be released within a week copies can already be ordered at Amazon.com (at a discounted price of $16.5), <http://barnesandnoble.com>barnesandnoble.com, <http://borders.com>borders.com and of course at <http://wiley.com>wiley.com --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
