Isbn: 9798180878786 - eight people we met on the way home: the return of the jewish nation to the land of israel (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The improbable, miraculous story of a people's return home - told through eight unforgettable lives.For nearly two thousand years the Jewish people lived scattered across the earth, praying toward a homeland they had not governed since antiquity. Then, against every odd and expectation, they began to go home. How did it happen In Eight People We Met on the Way Home, the renowned Rabbi and historian Rabbi Berel Wein tells that astonishing story - not as a dry academic chronicle, but as the wondrous, almost unbelievable tale it truly is.Rather than march through dates and treaties, Rabbi Wein traces the return of the Jewish nation to the Land of Israel through eight pivotal figures whose lives, ambitions, and clashes shaped the modern Jewish state. Each was utterly different - a Torah giant, a baron, a journalist, a scientist, a firebrand, a founder, a justice, a prime minister - yet each played an indispensable part in one of the most improbable national revivals in human history.The eight people you'll meet: - Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the Netziv) - the Torah scholar who dreamed of Jews working the soil of the Land of Israel- Baron Edmund James de Rothschild - the philanthropist whose fortune planted the first settlements and vineyards- Theodor Herzl - the assimilated journalist who became the visionary of political Zionism- Chaim Weizmann - the chemist and diplomat behind the Balfour Declaration, and Israel's first president- Ze'ev Jabotinsky - the fierce orator who founded the Revisionist movement- David Ben-Gurion - the relentless builder who declared the State of Israel into being- Louis Brandeis - the U.S. Supreme Court justice who gave Zionism a home in America- Menachem Begin - the underground commander turned prime minister and Nobel Peace laureateBeginning in the Torah academies of eighteenth-century Vilna and sweeping through the Zionist Congresses, two world wars, the Balfour Declaration, and the birth of the State of Israel, this is history told the way Rabbi Wein tells it best: with warmth, insight, and a storyteller's gift that speaks to both the mind and the heart.For anyone who has ever wondered how the Jewish people found their way home - and who the remarkable, flawed, and fascinating personalities were who led them there - Eight People We Met on the Way Home is an unforgettable journey.…