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Impossible Takes Longer
- 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams?
- By: Daniel Gordis
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1948, Israel’s founders sought a “national home for the Jewish people,” where Jewish life would be transformed. The state they ultimately made, says Daniel Gordis, is a place of extraordinary success and maddening disappointment, a story of both unprecedented human triumph and great suffering.
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Leftist agenda all over the place
- By AlexS on 12-11-23
- Impossible Takes Longer
- 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams?
- By: Daniel Gordis
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Nuanced, well researched, thoughtful
Reviewed: 06-09-23
The book follows the aspirations of Israel’s founders for the state as laid out in the Declaration of Independence. It provides rich context on the circumstances that led to the text of the declaration, and then evaluates Israel’s success of achieving those: Jewish security, language and culture, economics, minority rights, relationships with diaspora Jews and with other nations among others. A great read, highly recommend.
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