The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction
Back to the full ranking
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel cover

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Ari Shavit

1

award won

5

score

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

My Promised Land won the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and was a New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review and Economist best book of the year. Ari Shavit's riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. Shavit's analysis of Israeli history provides a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today's global political landscape.

Buy this book at Amazon
Publisher
Random House
Year
2013
ISBN-13
9780812984644
Genre
History
Topics
Zionism and Israeli historyIsraeli-Palestinian conflictNational identity

If you liked My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, you could also like these

Similar Topics