Translated from the Hebrew by Dena Ordan Tells the remarkable story of six young men and the organizations they founded between 1939 and 1948 that would set the stage for the militant Zionist activism of today.
Translated from the Hebrew by Dena Ordan Tells the remarkable story of six young men and the organizations they founded between 1939 and 1948 that wou...
To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research, previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now known as Israel.
Abraham David here focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century, tracing the beginnings of Sephardic influence in the land of Israel.
After the Ottoman Turks conquered Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in 1516, the Ottoman regime, unlike their Mamluk predecessors, encouraged economic development and settlement throughout the region....
To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research, previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of t...
This pioneering study offers a comprehensive account of Syria's key Jewish communities at an important juncture in their history that also throws light on the broader effects of modernization in the Ottoman empire. The Ottoman reforms of the mid-nineteenth century accelerated the process of opening up Syria up to European travellers and traders, and gave Syria's Jews access to European Jewish communities. The resulting influx of Western ideas led to a decline in the traditional economy, with serious consequences for the Jewish occupational structure. It also allowed for the introduction of...
This pioneering study offers a comprehensive account of Syria's key Jewish communities at an important juncture in their history that also throws ligh...
