The Israeli-American Connection examines the ways in which the American experience influenced some of the major leaders of the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine, during and between the world wars.

Piercing to the heart of conversations about how or whether to save Jews in an increasingly hostile Europe, this volume provides a nuanced and thoughtful assessment of what could and could not be achieved in the years just prior to World ...

This book explores the Yishuv’s hold on the Mediterranean and other bodies of water during the British Mandate in Palestine and the Zionist “maritime revolution,” a shift from a focus on land-based development to an embrace of the sea ...

... Yishuv's major organizations or parties. In the early 1930s, only Ha-Zohar and Mapai's Siya Bet unequivocally supported hopalao Of the Yishuv's recognized leaders, only Berl Katznelson supported aliya bet, and he was a notable exception ...

In the Zionist view of Israeli history, the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem - the Jewish community of the 19th and early 20th centuries - was "a lifeless body ruled by hypocrites, cheats and unschooled rabbis", and its importance was downplayed and ...

An in-depth look at the lives of religious Jewish women in Jerusalem at a transitional moment in its history.

Explores how North American Jews have envisioned Israel From the late 19th century to the present.

From New Zion to Old Zion draws upon international archival correspondence, newspapers, maps, photographs, interviews, and fieldwork to provide students and scholars of immigration and settlement processes, the Yishuv (Jewish community in ...

In this bracing history of the idea of the Jewish state in modern Zionism, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century until the establishment of the state of Israel, Dmitry Shumsky challenges this deeply rooted assumption.

A critical look at the history and culture of women of the Yishuv and a call for a new national discourse