Promotional Information

This insider's history of The Jerusalem Post over the last sixty years provides the only study to date of the intricate relationships between the press and the political system in Israel.

Table of Contents

Preface Beginnings News and Other Party Games Family Feuds before The Six-Day War A New Israel and a New Press Uncaging a Newspaper Reporting Mr. Begin Unity Without Consent The Intifada and the Press Conglomerate Conquest Bibliography Index

About the Author

ERWIN FRENKEL is an Israeli journalist and writer who served for years as editor of The Jerusalem Post until its sale to a conglomerate recently.

Reviews

?This elegantly written, thoughtful book manages to be history, philosophy, and personal document at the same time. As a clear-eyed observer (he worked for the Jerusalem Post for almost 30 years and served as its editor for 13 of them), Erwin Frenkel gives us an informal account of this English-language newspaper from its founding in 1932 to the early 1990s, against a background of the transformation of Zionism and Israel during these years and the changing relationship between press, politics, and public opinion ub a free society. This is a touching memoir by an acute unassuming, highly intelligent man.?-Congress Monthly

"This elegantly written, thoughtful book manages to be history, philosophy, and personal document at the same time. As a clear-eyed observer (he worked for the Jerusalem Post for almost 30 years and served as its editor for 13 of them), Erwin Frenkel gives us an informal account of this English-language newspaper from its founding in 1932 to the early 1990s, against a background of the transformation of Zionism and Israel during these years and the changing relationship between press, politics, and public opinion ub a free society. This is a touching memoir by an acute unassuming, highly intelligent man."-Congress Monthly