First edition of this issue of the important humanist journal founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Subject of this special issue inscribed in blue ballpoint pen on spine, otherwise handsome copy.
Special issue, entirely devoted to Israel:
- Jews from within and Jews from without: "The State of Israel, product of Zionism or independent nation?", "Relations with the Diaspora", "What is the Jewish people?"
- A nation in transformation: "The pioneers and the sabras", "The future of the kibbutzim", "Oriental Jews and Western Jews".
- Israel and the Arabs: "The Arab minority", "A situation of injustice", "Israel in the Middle East".
- Beyond nationalism: "900,000 excluded, the Arab refugees", peace proposals, "Can Israel become secular?", "The kibbutz, universal model", "Formation of a new nation, or renaissance of the Jewish people?"
With contributions by Roger Akriche, Jean-Marie Domenach, Boas Evron, Simha Flapan, Nathan Rotenstreich, Ezra Talmor, Shaul Zarhi...