Personal Witness
Israel Through My Eyes
Published on 18. February 1993
Book
Hardback
672 pages
978-0-224-03740-2 (ISBN)
Description
Probably no other Israeli citizen has been so deeply involved in so many aspects of his country's modern history, known so many famous figures at home or abroad, or - and this is of prime importance - is such a vivid and effective writer. Abba Eban's Heritage, the companion volume to a 1984 TV series covering the history of the Jews to the founding of Israel in 1948, was a major bestseller. Now Personal Witness brings the story up to the present, supported by another TV series, and enriched by Eban's own experience of the era he chronicles. Here are wonderful vignettes of stirring and dangerous events, along with intimate views on American presidents from Truman to Bush, leaders from De Gaulle to Churchill to Thatcher, and Israelis from Ben Gurion to Rabin. Throughout, Eban's voice is both personal and eloquent, his perspective informed and humane. Personal Witness is indispensable as history, irresistable as memoir.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Illustrations
16pp half-tones
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 166 mm
Weight
1068 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-224-03740-2 (9780224037402)
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The Bodley Head Ltd
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Person
Abba Eban was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1915, and educated at Cambridge University. He began his governmental career in 1948 as a United Nations representative for the provisional government of Israel, becoming permanent representative in 1949, a post he held for ten years. From 1950 to 1959 he concurrently served as Israeli Ambassador to the United States. In Israel, Eban has at various times held the position of Minister without Portfolio, Minister of Education and Culture, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as the presidency of the Weiszmann Institute of Science, and has been a member of the Knesset. He is the author of a number of books of history, politics, biography and memoir, and many articles.