Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest

by David Hartman

English, Hebrew (translation)

331 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

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[Bruce · Rating 4 out of 5]

Day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of Elath's couple of months representing the Jewish Agency at the 1945 UN Conference on International Organizations. (The conference was a key step in the creation of the State of Israel.) Elath engaged in conversation with a wide variety of international representatives, most notably a number of Arabs with whom he had long-standing personal acquaintance. He is mostly micro-level, but occasionally steps back to give the arguments for creation of the State of Israel. But there's enough here to show that the creation of the state by European powers and the U.S. is not going to go down well with Arab residents of Palestine.