San Antonio College Library

"Why does Zionism continue to arouse such passion around the world? Zionism is hotly debated, but much of its history is unfamiliar to both advocates and opponents. Throughout that history, people who have called themselves Zionists have espoused a wide variety of ideas, programmes, and aims. Abrupt changes in global historical circumstances over the course of the twentieth century generated radical shifts in Zionist goals and tactics, along with...

Examines the displacement of Palestinians by Zionist immigrants and Jewish refugees.

Documents the 1933 pact between the Third Reich and German Jewish leaders which promised an end to the Jewish led boycott of German goods and anti-Nazi protest in exchange for permission for sixty thousand Jews to emigrate to Palestine.

"From serving as the Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker to penning articles for the New York Times, Milton Viorst has dedicated his career to studying the Middle East. Now, in this new book, Viorst examines the evolution of Zionism, from its roots by serving as a cultural refuge for Europe's Jews, to the cover it provides today for Israel's exercise of control over millions of Arabs in occupied territories. Beginning with the shattering...

A history of the founding of the state of Israel which asks the reader pertinent questions regarding Judaic issues and values.

The survival of Jewish identity and culture is one of the great enigmas of history. Faced with persecution, dispersal, pogroms and Hitler's 'Final Solution', the future of the Jewish people has never been secure. The Jewish Enigma seeks to discover what has made survival possible. In seven concise chapters, leading scholars in the field trace the history of the Jewish people from early post-Biblical times and the first Babylonian exile to the current...