Israel: The First Hundred Years: Volume I: Israel's Transition from Community to State

ISBN-13: 9780714680248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 266 str.

Efraim Karsh

Opis

The birth of the Zionist Movement, coming in the wake of Jewish emancipation in Western Europe and at a time of intensified persecution of Jewry in Eastern Europe, meant that for the first time since Jewish dispersion, the possibility of the Jews discarding their minority status in the lands they inhabited and creating their own home in their ancestral homeland became a reality, however incomprehensible it may have appeared in these early years. The next half a century saw great strides in the economic, social and political life of the Yishuv that culminated in the creation of the State of Israel.

Recenzje

With contributions from some of the leading scholars of Zionism and Israeli history, this comprehensive new volume addresses many of the intellectual, social and political ramifications of Jewish settlement in Israel before the creation of the state of Israel.

The Middle East, March 2000

Efraim Karsh's well edited volume represents thoroughly scholarly and well researched work. 

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

Spis treści

Part 1: Nations, nationalism and state-building 1. Sacred territories and national conflict Anthony D. Smith  2. From "state within a state" to state David Vital  3. From civil society to sovereign state - the Israeli experience and the Palestinian quest Donna Robinson Divine  Part 2: The making of the Yishuv  4. The Jews in Eretz-Israel/Palestine - from traditional peripherally to modern centrality Ruth Kark and Joseph B. Glass  5. The boundaries of mandatory Palestine - how the past influences the future Gideon Biger  6.  Zionism and Jerusalem - the conflict of priorities - changes in Zionist settlement in the Jerusalem vicinity, 1937-48, Yossi Katz  7. Railways in Israel - the past and the future, Walter Rothschild  8. The Hebrew absorption of German literature I the Yishuv Na'ama Sheffi 9. The ideological and political background of the Israel defence forces Yaacov N. Goldstein  Part 3: The struggle for independence  10. Jewish armed struggle in Palestine in the 1940s - its impact on British morale and public opinion Shaul Zadka 11. The other side of the coin - Arab propaganda and the battle against Zionism in London, 1937-48, Rory Miller 12. The Jewish and Arab lobbies in Canada and the UN partition of Palestine Eliezer Tauber

O autorze

Edited by Karsh, Efraim