While there have been many histories of Israel written over the decades, Arthur Hertzberg’s The Zionist Idea, published in 1959, remains a classic guide to the intellectual underpinnings of Zionism. It is now joined almost sixty years later by Michael Brenner’s excellent book, In Search of Israel: The history of an idea. Inspired by the seventieth anniversary of Israel’s establishment, the p ... (read more)
Mark Baker
Mark Baker is the author of two memoirs, The Fiftieth Gate (1997) and Thirty Days (2017). He is Associate Professor at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation in the School of Philosophy, History, International Studies at Monash University.