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010			_a 2014021062
020			_a9781416575689 _q(hardback)
020			_a1416575685 _q(hardback)
020			_a9781416575696 _q(trade paper)
020			_a1416575693 _q(trade paper)
020			_z9781416584278 _q(ebook)
035			_a(OCoLC)884961607 _z(OCoLC)890598900 _z(OCoLC)892074149 _z(OCoLC)896872456 _z(OCoLC)900142307
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100	1		_aCohen, Richard M. _q(Richard Martin), _d1941- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIsrael : _bis it good for the Jews? / _cRichard Cohen.
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2014.
264		4	_c
300			_aviii, 275 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A very personal journey through Jewish history (and Cohen's own), and a passionate defense of Israel's legitimacy. Richard Cohen's book is part reportage, part memoir--an intimate journey through the history of Europe's Jews, culminating in the establishment of Israel. A veteran, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, Cohen began this journey as a skeptic, wondering in a national column whether the creation of a Jewish State was "a mistake." As he recounts, he delved into his own and Jewish history and fell in love with the story of the Jews and Israel, a twice-promised land--in the Bible by God, and by the world to the remnants of Europe's Jews. This promise, he writes, was made in atonement not just for the Holocaust, but for the callous indifference that preceded World War II and followed it--and that still threatens. Cohen's account is full of stories--from the nineteenth century figures who imagined a Zionist country, including Theodore Herzl, who thought it might resemble Vienna with its cafes and music; to what happened in twentieth century Poland to his own relatives; and to stories of his American boyhood. Cohen describes his relationship with Israel as a sort of marriage: one does not always get along but one is faithful"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe great mistake -- The Founder -- Anti-Semitism : a gift to the Jews -- Yiddishe kops everywhere you look -- Thirty-nine steps toward world domination -- Rudolph the Shirtmaker dies in the Bronx -- Jew, Jew, who's a Jew? -- Democracy : is it good for the Jews? -- Anti-Semitism among the Semites -- A sensation at Saratoga -- Twenty thousand charming children, twenty thousand ugly adults -- You can't go home again -- A bald-headed son of a bitch to the rescue -- Ethnic cleansing for a better world -- Nakba ... or not -- Two grandmothers and a lake -- Jabotinsky was right -- Jabotinsky was wrong -- Dinner with Sinatra and Tracy -- The man on the beach.
600	1	0	_aCohen, Richard M. _q(Richard Martin), _d1941-
651		0	_aIsrael _xHistory.
650		0	_aJews _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY _zMiddle East _xIsrael. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
600	1	7	_aCohen, Richard M. _q(Richard Martin), _d1941- _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01941786
650		7	_aJews. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00983135
651		7	_aIsrael. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204236
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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