Abstract
This article analyzes the original essay “Going Down to the Sea” by David Ben-Gurion, written in 1937. The article studies the historical context of Ben-Gurion’s maritime proclamation and discusses the Zionist Organization’s increasing interest in the sea as a place of power and influence. It demonstrates how a Jewish conquest of the sea influenced the Jewish national movement in general and Labor Zionism in specific. Moreover, it also shows how Zionists propagated a legitimate and national claim to the land and sea of Palestine and counterbalanced Arab and British narratives which questioned free Jewish immigration to the country. Thus, the article examines the Jewish maritime turn which gained influence after the publication of Ben-Gurion’s essay and affected the discourses on Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine.
Highlights
When David Ben-Gurion wrote the essay “Going Down to the Sea” in 1937, which would later be published in the Labor Zionist journal The Jewish Frontier in 1945, it provided an impressive example of what Eran Kaplan and Derek J
The article closely examines Ben-Gurion’s original essay and studies its ideas in order to demonstrate the complexity of the contemporary challenges and problems. It evaluates the Zionist narrative of strengthening Jewish nationalism and building a Jewish state through Jewish migration to Palestine, respectively Eretz Yisrael
It studies the clash of the Zionist narrative with the Arab and British ones, which aimed at reducing the numbers of Jewish immigrants, and in so doing, presented a different perspective on Jewish migration and the formation of a Jewish nation state
Summary
Número semitemático “Going Down to the Sea”: David Ben-Gurion’s Maritime Turn and Jewish Migrations to Mandatory Palestine, 1933-1948. “Going Down to the Sea”: a viragem marítima de David Ben-Gurion e as migrações judaicas para a Palestina sob mandato britânico, 1933-1948 “Going Down to the Sea” : le virage maritime de David Ben Gourion et la migration juive vers la Palestine sous mandat britannique, 1933-1948
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