Dr. Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem, and is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post and Bloomberg View. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and political currents in Israel, and a winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Dr. Gordis was the founding dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism. He joined Shalem in 2007 to help found Israel’s first liberal arts college, after spending nine years as vice president of the Mandel Foundation in Israel and director of its Leadership Institute. He lives in Jerusalem.

Books by Daniel Gordis

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

by Daniel Gordis - History, Nonfiction

Though Israel’s history is rife with conflict, these conflicts do not fully communicate the spirit of Israel and its people: they give short shrift to the dream that gave birth to the state, and to the vision for the Jewish people that was at its core. Guiding us through the milestones of Israeli history, Daniel Gordis relays the drama of the Jewish people’s story and the creation of the state. He illustrates how Israel became a cultural, economic and military powerhouse, but also explains where Israel made grave mistakes and traces the long history of Israel’s deepening isolation.