Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena

by Jerold S. Auerbach

Overview

BROTHERS AT WAR, a nonfiction release from Quid Pro Books, is Jerold S. Auerbach's probing and poignant exploration of the tragedy of the Altalena, the doomed ship whose arrival in Israel ignited Jewish fratricidal conflict only weeks after its declaration of statehood in 1948. The destruction of the Altalena, with sixteen of its fighters killed by Israeli soldiers in a bitter two-day battle, threatened the new nation with civil war.

This is the first history of the Altalena by a historian -- and the first to locate it within the context of ancient Jewish and contemporary Israeli history. The Altalena remains embedded in Israeli memory, Auerbach suggests, still framing unresolved issues of political legitimacy in the Jewish state.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012518941
Publisher:	Quid Pro, LLC
Publication date:	05/02/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	188
File size:	512 KB

About the Author

Identified as "America's foremost intellectual exponent of right-wing Zionism," Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of nine books including HEBRON JEWS: MEMORY AND CONFLICT IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL (2009), a history of the world's oldest continuing Jewish community. His essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The New York Times, The Jewish Press, Jerusalem Post, Midstream, and American Thinker.

Auerbach has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School, and recipient of two College Teachers Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is Professor Emeritus of History at Wellesley College.

Other NOOKBooks by the author include RABBIS AND LAWYERS and JACOB'S VOICES.