Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation's History through the Lives of Its Foremost Leaders by Jack L. Schwartzwald (McFarland)

This study offers a concise yet comprehensive account of Israel's history as told through the lives of nine of its leading citizens and founders.  Each chapter chronicles a critical epoch in the Israeli saga and catalogs the impact made on that epoch by one of nine leading protagonists -- Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, Abba Eban, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon.  The result is a narrative that traces events from the genesis of modern political Zionism in the late 19th century to the present.  A unique tapestry of history, biography and myth deconstruction, this 241-page volume provides a distinctive introduction to a nation that -- whether it inspires pride or incites passions -- never ceases to fascinate.


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Biography
Jack L. Schwartzwald is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert School of Medicine with eighteen years' experience in clinical teaching. He currently practices Hospitalist Medicine in Rhode Island. Before obtaining his medical degree from UMDNJ/New Jersey Medical School in 1989, he earned a BA in History from North Texas State University. 


Jack's articles and op-eds on Israeli history and politics have appeared in The Jewish Magazine, American Thinker, FrontPage Magazine, Israpundit, New Society, Rhode Island's Jewish Voice and Herald and Brown University's Daily Herald. He has contributed to three separate medical textbooks--most recently, Fred Ferri, ed., "Ferri's Clinical Advisor," Philadelphia (Mosby-Elsevier, 2010)--and served as principal physician-demonstrator in a series of instructional DVDs produced at Brown University detailing physical examination skills for 1st- and 2nd-year medical students. The original draft of "Nine Lives of Israel," won third prize at the 2009 Mayborn Literary Non-Fiction Competition in Dallas, Texas.