Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

However, there is already a fundamental difference from the past. In the past, a threatened Jewish community in Diaspora could hope only to sustain bearable losses and to live on by sufferance or flight. Israel has—and, through it, all Jews have—a major voice in its own fate. In the past, when Jews were destroyed, their wealth and achievement enric

To bring home the survivors and to end dependence on a world that did not care, the Jews would have to win a state.