David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish RenaissanceThis book offers a reappraisal of David Ben Gurion's role in Jewish Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty first century, in the larger context of the Zionist "renaissance," of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now after the dust surrounding Israel's founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective