Geoffrey Wheatcroft

When Israel was but a dream

Two new books, My Promised Land and Herzl, document the creation — and some of the costs — of Zionism

Theodore Herzl at the first Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland, 1897 [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

  • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Zionism

    Ari Shavit

    Scribe, pp. 464

  • Herzl: Theodore Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

    Shlomo Avineri

    Weidenfeld, pp. 288

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