Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Translator's note
- Preface to the Hebrew edition
- Introduction
- Events and books
- Under this blazing light
- ‘Man is the sum total of all the sin and fire pent up in his bones’
- ‘A ridiculous miracle hanging over our heads’
- The State as reprisal
- A modest attempt to set out a theory
- The meaning of homeland
- The discreet charm of Zionism
- A.D. Gordon today
- Thoughts on the kibbutz
- The kibbutz at the present time
- How to be a socialist
- Munia Mandel's secret language
- Pinchas Lavon
- The lost garden
- An autobiographical note
- An alien city
- Like a gangster on the night of the long knives, but somewhat in a dream
- Notes
- Publication history
- Index of names
Preface to the Hebrew edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Translator's note
- Preface to the Hebrew edition
- Introduction
- Events and books
- Under this blazing light
- ‘Man is the sum total of all the sin and fire pent up in his bones’
- ‘A ridiculous miracle hanging over our heads’
- The State as reprisal
- A modest attempt to set out a theory
- The meaning of homeland
- The discreet charm of Zionism
- A.D. Gordon today
- Thoughts on the kibbutz
- The kibbutz at the present time
- How to be a socialist
- Munia Mandel's secret language
- Pinchas Lavon
- The lost garden
- An autobiographical note
- An alien city
- Like a gangster on the night of the long knives, but somewhat in a dream
- Notes
- Publication history
- Index of names
Summary
Most of the essays and articles brought together in this book are ‘based on’ or ‘adapted from’ articles, interviews, lectures and radio talks dating from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. Hence some possible repetitions, and hence also the differences, of tone and style, between the various articles. It is not particularly hard to find unfinished or inconsistent lines of thought, or even some contradictions.
Perhaps most of the essays in this book are substitutes for stories that I have not managed to write.
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- Under this Blazing Light , pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995