Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams?
$19.46 / copy at 25+ copies As low as $16.17 at 1,000+Your best volume price
Total $486.50
Format
The more copies, the less each one costs
Applied automatically in your cart. No code needed.
Equip your whole group
For small groups, church-wide reading plans and ministry gifts. We'll get the books where they need to go.
Tell us about your group and we'll suggest books that fit your season and study.
Group sales Make it yoursBookplates, tipped-in pages, belly bands or author signatures. Hardcovers only, subject to publisher approval.
Customization options Ship to every readerOne address, many sites or individual recipients' homes, in the US and abroad.
Fulfillment options Pair it with a branded journalJournals with your logo or each reader's name, for the same group.
Branded journals
Bring in a speaker
BookPal is partnering with Talezo to help you find and book authors, speakers and performers for your event.
BookPal × TalezoImpossible Takes Longer
WINNER OF THE RABBI SACKS BOOK PRIZE
A nuanced examination of the Israel’s past, present, and future, after reaching its seventy-fifth anniversary and enduring its most challenging year ever, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Israel. Revised and updated throughout for the paperback edition.
In 1948, Israel’s founders sought a “national home for the Jewish people,” a core tenet of Zionism where Jewish life would be transformed. The state they ultimately made, says Daniel Gordis, is a place of extraordinary success and maddening disappointment, a story of both unprecedented human triumph and great suffering.
When it marked its seventy-fifth anniversary, Israel was in the throes of a judicial reform crisis that tested the limits of its democracy, its most dangerous internal rupture ever. Then, with the October 7th War, it was attacked from the outside and plunged into existential uncertainty. In light of those first seventy-five years and the events of 2023 that shook the country to its core, Gordis asks: Has Israel fulfilled the dreams of its founders?
Using Israel’s Declaration of Independence, Gordis measures Israel’s achievements, critiques its failures, and acknowledges its inherent contradictions in this compelling work of Jewish history—ultimately suggesting that, though it has often fallen short, the Jewish state is a success far beyond anything its founders could have imagined.
This unflinching and clear-eyed book provides a vital framework for understanding the Jewish state today:
- A Founding Document Under Scrutiny: How Israel’s Declaration of Independence serves as an unflinching metric for its successes and failures seventy-five years later.
- A Nation at a Crossroads: An essential analysis of the judicial reform crisis and the October 7th War, and what they reveal about the country’s soul.
- National Liberation and Its Costs: A deep dive into the triumphs and tragedies of the Jewish national liberation movement, from unprecedented success to great suffering.
- Modern Middle East History: A balanced examination of Israel’s inherent contradictions, offering a thoughtful perspective on one of the world’s most complex regions.
The book, Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams? [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780063239449 in Hardcover by Daniel Gordis may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Author
- Daniel Gordis
- Format
- Hardcover
- Published
- Apr 11, 2023
- ISBN-13
- 9780063239449
- ISBN-10
- 0063239442
- Pages
- 384
- Carton quantity
- 28 copies
Impossible Takes Longer in bulk: pricing
Volume pricing applies automatically in your cart. No codes, no account needed.
| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $19.46 | 41% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $18.47 | 44% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $17.48 | 47% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $16.82 | 49% off list |
| 1,000+ | $16.17 | 51% off list |
Popular for
A copy for everyone in the group, delivered before the first meeting.
One book for the whole congregation for a season.
For volunteers, staff, guests and community events.
How fast can I get copies of Impossible Takes Longer?
Need them by a specific date? Request a quote and we'll confirm timing before you pay.
Can you ship to several locations or people's homes?
Yes. We ship in bulk to one address, to multiple sites, or to individual recipients, in the US and internationally. See fulfillment options.
Can I get a formal quote for approval before ordering?
Yes. Request a quote and we'll send a PDF you can forward for approval.
Do you accept purchase orders and tax-exempt orders?
Yes. We accept purchase orders upon approval, as well as cards, PayPal, ACH, wire transfers and checks. BookPal is a tax-exempt supplier in all 50 states. See purchase orders and sales tax exemption.
What if I find a lower price?
Send us the link. We match prices from other bulk booksellers and distributors on a new copy in the same edition, available to ship in the quantity you need. Clearance sales and pricing errors are the exception, and we'll tell you quickly if that's the case. Start a price match.
Write a Review
Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams?
Groups also order
A colleague asked you to approve this order
Your quote list
Add books as you browse, then request one quote for all of them.