History Of Zionism Research Articles

Women's Quest For Occupational Equality: The Case Of Jewish Female Agricultural Workers in Pre-State Israel

There is a common belief that Israeli women have achieved gender equality over and above that attained in America and European countries. Evidence cited to support this is the fact that women routinely serve in the Israeli army and the country elected a woman, Golda Meir, as prime minister. Equality between men and women is claimed to date back to the days at the beginning of the century when both sexes worked shoulder to shoulder in road construction and land reclamation (Bernstein, 1992: 2). The years 1904–14 and 1919–23, known in Zionist history as the Second and ThirdAliyah(waves of immigration), were indeed formative times during which the dominant values of the society were shaped and the infrastructure of future organizations was laid (Eisenstadt, 1967; Izraeli, 1981). The immigrants who arrived during this period, known ashalutzim(male pioneers) andhalutzot(female pioneers) were idealistic nationalists from Eastern Europe. They were young and single, and came with the express purpose of rebuilding Zion and creating a new type of egalitarian and labor-oriented society.

Review articles

Tudor Parfitt, The Road to Redemption: The Jews of the Yemen 1900–1950, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996, 299 pp. Zeev Jabotinsky, Letters (Hebrew). Editor, Daniel Carpi; Assistant Editor, Moshe Halevy, Jabotinsky Institute in Israel\HaSifriya HaZiyonit. Vol. I, May 1898‐July 1914, 1992, 231 pp.; Vol. II, September 1914‐November 1918, 1995, 289 pp. Amitzur Ilan, The Origin of the Arab‐Israeli Arms Race: Arms, Embargo, Military Power and Decision in the 1948 Palestine War, London, MacMillan\St Antony's College, 1996, 287 pp. Michael Shalev, Labour and the Political Economy in Israel, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, 414 pp., line drawings, tables, £40.00. Anthony Verrier ed., Agents of Empire: Anglo‐Zionist Intelligence Operations 1915–1919, London/Washington, Brassey's, 1995, 342 pp., £25.00 Adam Garfinkle, War, Water, and Negotiations in the Middle East: The Case of the Palestine‐Syria Border, 1916–1923, Tel Aviv, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, 1994, 154 pp. Moshe Davis, America and the Holy Land, Vol. IV of the series, With Eyes Toward Zion, Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 1995. Avraham Shapira, The Kabbalistic and Hassidic Sources of A.D. Gordon's Thought (Hebrew), Tel Aviv, The Institute for Research in the History of Zionism, Tel Aviv University and Am Oved, 1996, 372 pp. David C. Holly, Exodus 1947, Revised Edition, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1995, 256 pp. including 56 illustrations. Michael M. Laskier, The Jews of Egypt, 1920–1970: in the Midst of Zionism, Anti‐Semitism, and the Middle East Conflict, New York, New York University Press, 1992. Antonio Donno, ed., Gli Stati Uniti, La Shoah E I Primi Anni Di Israele (1938–1957) (Italian), Florence, Giuntina, 1995, 281 pp. Evyatar Friesel, The Days and the Seasons: Memoirs, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1996.

Selected and annotated bibliography for 1994: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

Selected and annotated bibliography for 1994: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

RECENT TRENDS IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ZIONISM: A REVIEW ESSAY

A number of recent scholarly studies in Zionist history have broken important ground in the research and analysis of controversial episodes that eluded the earlier generation of historians of Zionism. Several of the latest studies are briefly marred by their authors' attempts to find lessons from the Zionist past to apply to contemporary political and religious problems. Nonetheless, the new scholarship does succeed in raising previously neglected questions, clarifying important issues, and enriching our understanding of Zionist history. Jeff Halper's Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century1 is a good example of useful historical analysis that goes awry when the author seeks to project contemporary political categories into an era where they cannot be comfortably applied. Halper presents his study as a corrective to the popular, but overly simplistic, assumptions about differences between the YishuvJewish society that was in place in the Holy Land and the New Yishuv that the Zionist pioneers began establishing in the late 1800s. Halper succeeds in correcting that stereotype, but he stumbles when he attempts to go further. Halper demonstrates that the conflict between the two cultures did not pit secular, rural, productive Zionists who earned their keep, against a religious, urban, Ashkenazi yeshiva community dependent upon halukah charity funds from abroad. The Yishuv was a pluralistic entity, with Sefardis as well as Ashkenazis, rural as well as urban residential patterns, and wage earners as well as yeshiva students. There were even some differences in religious behavior within the Old Yishuv, although Halper may be overstating their significance; he characterizes the Ashkenazis as ultraorthodox and the Sefardis as moderates

Selected and annotated bibliography for 1993: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

Selected and annotated bibliography for 1993: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

Zionism at a Turning Point: The Arab-Israeli Peace Process as a Prelude to a New Era

Zionist history has witnessed two major turning points since the idea of a Jewish national revival in Zion, the historical homeland, was first expressed in Europe during the middle of the nineteenth century. The first turning point occurred at the end of that century and included two main developments: the start of a nationally motivated Jewish return to Eretz Israel1 in 1882 and the convergence of the first Zionist Congress in Basle during the summer of 1897, which marked the movement's shift from theory into a political reality. The second turning point took place at the mid-point of the twentieth century with the establishment of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948. This event, probably more than any other element, marked the realization of one of the main goals of the movement. Since its beginning, the Jewish Yishuv 2 has been affected by the antagonism, hostility, and hatred born of Arab nationalism.

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1992: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1992: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel; Benjamin Beit‐Hallahmi

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BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:The “Center of the Universe”: The Geopolitics of Iran, by Graham E. Fuller.American Presidents and the Middle East, by George Lemczowski.Cauldron: America in the Middle East, by Barry Rubin.Twin Pillars in Desert Storm: America's Flawed Vision in the Middle East from Nixon to Bush, by Howard Teicher and Gayle Radley Teicher.Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel, by Benjamin Beit‐Hallahmi.The New Palestinians: be Emerging Generation of Leaders, by John Wallach and Janet Wallach.Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East, edited by Iliya Harik and Denis J. Sullivan.Imaghing the Middle East, by Thierry Hentsch.

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1991: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

(1992). A selected and annotated bibliography for 1991: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel. Studies in Zionism: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 191-255.

The american element in the rise of golda meir 1906–1929

One of the commonplaces of Zionist history is the exceptionalism of American Zionism. To an extent unparalleled in other places, Americans have tended to armchair Zionism. They have generously supported the return of others to the land of Israel, but usually refrained from going there themselves. In fact, Americans, in general, and American Jews, in particular, have seldom left the United States for any other place.

Non‐fiction reviews

Mozambique: who calls the shots. by Joseph Hanlon, London: James Currey. 1991. 301pp. £11.95pb Renamo: terrorism in Mozambique. by Alex Vines, London: James Currey. 1991. 176pp. £7.95pb Behind the Intifada: labor and women's movements in the occupied territories. by Joost R Hiltermann, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 265pp Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel. by Benjamin Beit‐Hallahmi, London and Concord: Pluto Press 1992, 218pp Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem. by Michael Romann and Alex Weingrod, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1991. 258pp Veiled Half‐Truths: Western Travellers’ Perceptions of Middle Eastern Women. by Judy Mabro, London: IB Tauris. 1991 Ethnicity and Nationalism: theory and comparison. by Paul R Brass, New Delhi/Newbury Park/London: Sage Publications. 1991. 358pp Policy Options for the Singapore Economy. by Lim, Chong‐Yah and Associates, London and Singapore: McGraw‐Hill. 1988. 499pp $US42.50 hb Ma...

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1990: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

(1991). A selected and annotated bibliography for 1990: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel. Studies in Zionism: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 203-293.

Escaping the Holocaust: illegal immigration to the land of Israel, 1939-1944

Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine prior to the founding of the State of Israel forms one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of Zionism and modern Jewish history. Bringing Jews from Europe to Palestine by land and by sea in defiance of restrictive British immigration policies was partly an undertaking of national rescue and partly a calculated strategy of political brinkmanship. Ofer focuses on this important phase in the history of the Holocaust.

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1989: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1989: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

An Arab History of Zionism: A History of Zionism. [Volume Two, The Jewish National Home in Palestine, 1918–1939], by Sabri Jiryis

An Arab History of Zionism: A History of Zionism. [Volume Two, The Jewish National Home in Palestine, 1918–1939], by Sabri Jiryis

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1988: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1988: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

The History of Zionism: Zionism: The Crucial Phase, by David Vital

"The History of Zionism: Zionism: The Crucial Phase, by David Vital." Journal of Palestine Studies, 18(3), pp. 149–150

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1987: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1987: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1986: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel

A selected and annotated bibliography for 1986: The history of Zionism and the state of Israel