The book Bedouin in the Negev: Tribalism, Politics and Criticism brings to the Israeli reader a variety of current and historical studies examining Bedouin society in the Negev and its complex relationship with the State of Israel. The chapters of the book were written by leading researchers from the fields of planning, geography, law, gender, history, Middle Eastern studies and more. The book addresses the questions: What brought about the great success of the Islamic Movement among the Bedouin in the Negev? What are the various segments that formed the Bedouin society is in the Negev? What is the place of women in this society? What are “tribal settlements” and what are their difficulties? Is there a bias in academic research in the field and what are the reasons for it? What is the connection between the Negev Bedouin affairs, the BDS movement and Israeli sovereignty? These and other topics discussed in the book seek to expand knowledge and enrich the existing discourse in this highly relevant field both among the general public and decision makers.
This book tells the story of women prisoners and detainees of the underground organizations who fought against the British rule for the establishment of the State of Israel, and who were imprisoned in the women's prison in Bethlehem and in the detention camp adjacent to it. Through the personal letters written by these prisoners and detainees, the book traces their experiences, daily routines, prison consciousness and the personal and collective psychology accompanying their time in Bethlehem.
The book contrasts the different identities – that sometimes clashed with each other – that made up their characters, while creating a rare human mosaic reflecting the image of the Hebrew woman warrior who sacrificed many years of her life to achieve national independence but who has gone forgotten and unmentioned in the historical and national memory.
The Story of the "Bergson Group" and its campaign for a Jewish Army to save the Jewish people of Europe, and the establishment of a Hebrew Republic in Palestine.
The evolution of a delegation of the Irgun zvai Leumi into the hebrew Committee of National Liberation.
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A City Remembers is a tapestry of municipal commemorations in Tel Aviv-Yafo that are constitutive of the city's landscape of remembrance and everyday urban experience. The book provides historical and photographic documentation and interpretive analysis of gravestones and monuments that the Municipality of Tel Aviv (since 1950: Tel Aviv-Yafo) initiated or was involved in planning, financing, and building, in the course of the city's history. Thematically structured and ordered chronologically, the book offers a unique perspective on urban memorial monuments as material artifacts that facilitate the intersection of history, memory, space, and landscape.
This volume brings together for the first time an unpublished correspondence between two friends, and lifelong political partners – Hillel Kook and Samuel Merlin. Kook and Merlin were members of the Irgun delegation to the United States from 1940 – 1948 and later were members of Israel’s constituent assembly. The correspondence brings to light a unique friendship which conveys, through the subjective perceptions of hindsight, the story of the most turbulent years of the 20th Century.
This book tells the story of a group of girls and young women who "made aliyah" between 1967 and 2017, charting their home lives and background, following the process of decision making, and describing and analyzing their immigration, absorption and assimilation into a new country and culture.
The book examines the tumultuous controversy among Lehi members about the legacy of the organization in which they operated. The long-running controversy between the right-wing branch in Lehi, represented by Dr. Israel Eldad, and the left-wing branch represented by Natan Yalin-Mor, has intensified over the years due to the political directions the two have taken. One, to the radical right-wing and the other to the radical left-wing.
The collection of the articles deal with the following issues: Individuals in Hebrew mobilized during Mandate Period; Gideon Mer fight against malaria; Levi Eshkol and the Jewish Settlement (1926-1952); Joseph Weitz and the Israeli forest; The Zionist Settlement in the films; The Kibbutz in Israeli cinema; belonging and identity in in the mixed city of Haifa; The League of Local Councils, 1937-1948; The memorandum the Va’ad Leumi on the Holy sites for Jews in Eretz Israel.
The book Clandestine Immigration from Italy 1945-1948: Immigration, Diplomacy and Human Rights focuses on the dramatic struggle of the Mossad for clandestine immigration to send ships from the Italian shores to British Mandate Palestine. It presents the diplomatic negotiations and conflicts between Britain and Italy together with the human story of the immigrants and the Mossad and Palyam emissaries. The book focuses on a central issue of foreign policy: the probability of combining strategic and political interests with human rights considerations. It examines the positions of Britain, the United States, Italy and the Zionist leaders concerning the clandestine immigration.
Michael Halperin intrigued his contemporaries, the early pioneers of the 1st and 2nd Aliyah, excited some and inspired them all. Following his death, his memory was called upon to become a central figure for the two fundamental movements in the Jewish Yishuv, the Zionist Movement, and subsequently the State of Israel - the Labor Movement and the Revisionist Movement, to establish a sense of legitimacy for both.
One Trauma, Two Perspectives, Three Years focuses on the three years following World War II, in which prominent Jewish organizations in the United States and Eretz-Israel launched a worldwide media campaign for the rehabilitation and resettlement of Holocaust survivors. The campaign, which was based on films and newsletters produced and published by these organizations, targeted Jews and non-Jews around the world, and influenced the shaping of the collective memory of the Holocaust and its survivors.
The essay elaborates on the commemorative history of the unknown soldier in pre-state and post-independence Israel. The first part of the essay elaborates on the featuring of the “unknown soldier” in the Zionist discourse of the Jewish Yishuv. The second part of the essay focuses on successive stages in the history of the state-sponsored project that, beginning in 1949, sought to integrate remembrance of the Unknown Soldier into the liturgical foundations of Israel’s statehood.
In 1926 Max Nordau (1849-1923), Herzl's close friend and eminent Zionist leader, was re-interred in Tel Aviv. The first part of the study explores the Zionist politics underlying Nordau's re-interment in the First Hebrew City. The second part examines the design of Nordau's mausoleum as an aspect of the creation of a Zionist pantheon in Tel Aviv.
The book contains two compelling essays by Herzl’s friend, Gustav Gabriel Cohen (1830-1906). Written in the 1880s, these bear witness to the life force of early Zionism and set forth Cohen’s vision of the Jewish people in possession of a national identity. The essays also delve into the anguish ofthe Eastern European Jews as well as the assimiliationist yearnings of Western European Jews.
This book is a collection of lectures given in 1988 at the first conference held by the Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism at the University of Haifa. The conference explored different aspects of the transition from Yishuv to statehood, focusing on the interaction between continuity and change in the period 1947-1949.
