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A Village by the Jordan: The Story of Degania

Author : Joseph Baratz
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Village by the Jordan: The Story of Degania written by Joseph Baratz and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2024-05-19 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly readable first-person account “we learn the history of Kibbutz Degania from one of its first members, beginning in 1911, when there were only 12, and through its growth as a community and center of agriculture, its joys and its difficulties. It’s an attractive, interesting read... featuring such major figures as Trumpeldor, Arthur Ruppin, and A. D. Gordon... through the years of the British Mandate, the Second World War, the Jewish Brigade, the War of Independence and after... The author is nostalgic for the past with its ideals, its extraordinary atmosphere, austere customs, poverty and warm collegiality... This is a book that deserves to be read and pondered.” — Dante Lattes, La Rassegna Mensile di Israel “A Village by the Jordan: The Story of Degania tells the story of the first collective village, founded at the beginning of the present century. The authenticity of this account is enhanced by the fact that its author, Joseph Baratz, was one of the founders of the village and has continued to play a major part in its development from a precarious border settlement of twelve young men and women into a prosperous community of over a thousand souls. The story is one of human endurance, hope and despair, toil and struggle, failure and final success. Its pages testify to the determined dedication of its members to create a just and meaningful life for themselves and others. The author tells his story with a spontaneity and simplicity that mark any truly creative experience. Baratz refrains from idealizing and embellishing; he shows throughout a sense of historical perspective and presents events and personalities in their proper light. He never resorts to wishful interpretation; the significance of what he relates becomes evident by dint of the momentum inherent in the story, which thus assumes the additional importance of an authentic historical document... A Village by the Jordan is indeed both enlightening and inspiring.” — Shaoul Hareli, Studies in Bibliography and Booklore

The Kibbutz

Author : Daniel Gavron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847695263
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Kibbutz written by Daniel Gavron and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the human story, journalist Daniel Gavron movingly portrays the fears, regrets and hopes of members of kibbutzim ranging from traditional to modern and agricultural to urban.

Artzeinu

Author : Joel Lurie Grishaver
Publisher : Torah Aura Productions
ISBN 13 : 1934527114
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Artzeinu written by Joel Lurie Grishaver and published by Torah Aura Productions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready for a completely new way of teaching Israel artzeinu?

Understanding Israel

Author : Sol Scharfstein
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881254280
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Israel written by Sol Scharfstein and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gr 5-7-This glossy, oversized volume provides a highly pictorial overview of the modern state from its beginnings in Palestine up to the present. Scharfstein describes the land and peoples of Israel, its history, government, culture, economy, archaeology, and religion. The country's role in the politics, powerplays, and wars of the Middle East are also summarized. The author explains why, after so many years of negotiations, the Arab countries are now willing to sign peace agreements. The writing is straightforward with brief declarative sentences and from one to two pages devoted to a topic. Maps, diagrams, and full-color and black-and-white photos and reproductions appear throughout. This publisher formerly published Amos Elon's Understanding Israel (1976), and Scharfstein's book appears to be an adaptation and update of it. David Bamberger's A Young Person's History of Israel (1985; both Behrman) is for slightly older audiences. It is written in a flowing narrative that discusses, rather than outlines, the topics and editorializes more than this book, which strives to be objective.-Marcia Posner, Federation of New York and the Jewish Book Council, New York City.

Homeland

Author : Yael Allweil
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315395975
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Homeland written by Yael Allweil and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Yael Allweil reveals in her fascinating book, housing has played a pivotal role in the history of nationalism and nation building in Israel-Palestine. She adopts the concept of ‘homeland’ to highlight how land and housing are central to both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, and how the history of Zionist and Palestinian national housing have been inseparably intertwined from the introduction of the Ottoman Land Code in 1858 to the present day.

A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Author : Mark Tessler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253013461
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict written by Mark Tessler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Tessler's highly praised, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the earliest times to the present—updated through the first years of the 21st century—provides a constructive framework for understanding recent developments and assessing the prospects for future peace. Drawing upon a wide array of documents and on research by Palestinians, Israelis, and others, Tessler assesses the conflict on both the Israelis' and the Palestinians' terms. New chapters in this expanded edition elucidate the Oslo peace process, including the reasons for its failure, and the political dynamics in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza at a critical time of transition.

The Avocado

Author : Bruce A. Schaffer
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845937015
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Avocado written by Bruce A. Schaffer and published by CABI. This book was released on 2013 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is comprised of 15 chapters covering principles and basic understanding in avocado science, technology, best management practices and postharvest aspects. It is aimed at avocado researchers, libraries, teachers and academics, students, advisers, cutting edge growers and industry support personnel. Topics discussed include the history, distribution, uses, taxonomy, botany, genetics, breeding, ecology, reproductive biology, ecophysiology, cultivars and rootstocks, propagation, biotechnology, irrigation and mineral nutrition, crop management, foliar, fruit and soil-borne diseases, insect and mite pests and harvesting, packing, postharvest technology, transport and processing.

The Renewal of the Kibbutz

Author : Raymond Russell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813569605
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Renewal of the Kibbutz written by Raymond Russell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of the kibbutz as a place for communal living and working. Members work, reside, and eat together, and share income “from each according to ability, to each according to need.” But in the late 1980s the kibbutzim decided that they needed to change. Reforms—moderate at first—were put in place. Members could work outside of the organization, but wages went to the collective. Apartments could be expanded, but housing remained kibbutz-owned. In 1995, change accelerated. Kibbutzim began to pay salaries based on the market value of a member’s work. As a result of such changes, the “renewed” kibbutz emerged. By 2010, 75 percent of Israel’s 248 non-religious kibbutzim fit into this new category. This book explores the waves of reforms since 1990. Looking through the lens of organizational theories that predict how open or closed a group will be to change, the authors find that less successful kibbutzim were most receptive to reform, and reforms then spread through imitation from the economically weaker kibbutzim to the strong.

Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914

Author : Gershon Shafir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520917415
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 written by Gershon Shafir and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-08-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.

Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist

Author : Anita Shapira
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521256186
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (561 download)

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Book Synopsis Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist by : Anita Shapira

Download or read book Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist written by Anita Shapira and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-12-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Berl is more than the biography of an individual: it is the story of a movement. The book traces Berl from a young Russian socialist and romantic pioneer on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, into the propounder of a work ethic and the founder of the central political current of the Israeli labour movement.

Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Pre-Israeli Culture

Author : Etan Bloom
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900420380X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Pre-Israeli Culture by : Etan Bloom

Download or read book Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Pre-Israeli Culture written by Etan Bloom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Ruppin’s immense contribution to the Zionist movement gave him the title “The Father of Jewish/Zionist settlement in Palestine.” Nevertheless, the common narrative sets Ruppin’s historical persona in an ambivalent position and suppresses his formative role and heritage. Part of the reason for this is that, in many ways, his history causes a crack to appear in the Zionist national “cover stories.” This study utilizes innovative archival research and contains provocative theses which make us view the foundation of Israeli culture differently. It addresses the cultural interaction between the German Sonderweg, with all its proto-Nazi and völkische ideas, and Palestinian Zionism. The study therefore exposes the sources and presence of internal Jewish racism while also analysing the anti-Semitic aspect of Pre-Israeli culture. A particularly important section details Ruppin's crucial influence on the Labor Movement and the colonization of the Land of Israel/Palestine.

The Makers of Modern Syria

Author : Sami Moubayed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838609482
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The Makers of Modern Syria written by Sami Moubayed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of World War I Syria paved a path towards democracy. Initially as part of the French mandate in the Middle East and latterly as an independent republic, Syria put in place the instruments of democratic government that it was hoped would lead to a stable future. This book tells the story of Syria's formative years, using previously-unseen material from the personal papers of Ahmad Sharabati, a prominent nationalist who served in different capacities during colonial times and early independence, first as minister of defense and then as minister of education. His experiences and those of others of his generation tell the story of Syria's short-lived democratic years, up to the union with Egypt as the United Arab Republic between 1958 and 1961.

Underground to Palestine

Author : I. F. Stone
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497698014
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Underground to Palestine written by I. F. Stone and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and unforgettable eyewitness account of the courageous exodus of Holocaust survivors from post–World War II Europe to the Promised Land, now expanded with Stone’s frontline reporting on the Arab-Israeli crises of 1948–49 and the Suez War of 1956, and with a new foreword by D. D. Guttenplan In the spring of 1946, American journalist I. F. Stone embarked on an incredible adventure, accompanying Holocaust survivors as they made their historic voyage from Eastern Europe to the biblical Promised Land. Undertaken in secrecy against the strict orders of Palestine’s British colonial governors, this harrowing escape began in the displaced persons camps of Germany and Poland. An illegal convoy of the homeless, proud, and determined, these refugees traveled by train and by foot across the European continent before boarding the ship that would carry them past the British blockade to their ancient, ancestral home. No account of the historic twentieth-century exodus is as poignant, powerful, exhilarating, and dramatic as this acclaimed first-person narrative. Through the words of author I. F. Stone, one of America’s most provocative and revered investigative reporters, these courageous men, women, and children live again. Largely implicit but nevertheless unyielding is Stone’s belief in a binational Arab-Jewish state, a creed unacceptable to the Zionist movement of the time. Included are essays written in the years following Israel’s establishment, reflecting on the state of the newly reborn nation and the volatile situation in the Middle East thirty years beyond the establishment of Mandatory Palestine. Caught between the immediate, innate sense of belonging he felt in Palestine and his own developing critique of Zionism, Stone wrote into each of these works a personal struggle, a question of justice unsolved today. With a new introduction by D. D. Guttenplan, this edition reveals a perspective indispensable to understanding past and present tensions in the Middle East.

Water in the Middle East

Author : Karl David Hambright
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137582
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Water in the Middle East written by Karl David Hambright and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarcity of water is a problem in many areas around the world. In this sense the Middle East which suffers from frequent droughts and a shortage of potable water, is not unique. However, when political disagreements among states combine with issues of fair and equitable access to common water resources, the problems associated with water scarcity seem intractable. In this sense the Middle East, and particularly the Jordan River Valley, is indeed unique. This enlightening book brings together the insights of scholars from Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and the United States who employ a broad range of perspectives and disciplines–engineering, agronomy, biology, economics, history, geography, and political science–to examine the significance of water in Middle East conflicts. These contributors do not offer facile remedies. Rather they show that any solution must be achieved within a political and social framework of peace, enlightened economic policies, and technical measures that take due account of environmental conditions. This volume is the result of the conference "Water in the Jordan Valley," sponsored by the Center for Peace Studies, a division of the International Programs Center at the University of Oklahoma.

The Edge of the Sword: Israel’s War of Independence 1947-1949

Author : Netanel Lorch
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of the Sword: Israel’s War of Independence 1947-1949 written by Netanel Lorch and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Netanel Lorch, who fought as an officer in Jerusalem during Israel’s War of Independence and later founded the Israel Defense Forces’ Historical Section, offers a detailed military history of the years 1947-49. The book begins with the tensions of the British Mandate period in Palestine, including the international debates over proposed boundaries for the new Jewish state, and examines the chaos that followed the British evacuation, the invasion of five Arab armies supported by guerrilla fighters inside Israel, the defeat of the Arab armies, and the signing of armistice agreements at Rhodes. It surveys the strength, weaknesses, equipment and manpower of Jewish and Arab forces and describes the strategies and tactics used in operations launched by all sides, together with the results of the battles that led to Israel’s pre-1967 borders. “In splendidly crisp, frugal but always fluent narrative, Col. Netanel Lorch relates how Israel won her life with ‘The Edge of the Sword.’ It is an apt title for this masterly deployment of bare facts, devoid of speculative afterthoughts, almost devoid of comment... I rate this book a splendid job of work, absorbing to a student of war, a fit memorial to heroic events passing comprehension.” — The New York Times “... minute in its detail, meticulous in its completeness, matter of fact in its style... but, professional objectivity notwithstanding, he offers a penetrating insight into the passions and purposes that underlay this struggle.” — Herbert Kupferberg, The New York Herald Tribune “Lorch... was fortunate in holding a position in which he was able to obtain and sift much data not normally available to the public. This he has done admirably... It is a timely, comprehensive book... clearly a must for the bookshelf of everyone who takes an interest in military matters or in the Middle East.” — Edgar O’Ballance, The Spectator, London “... a fascinating work. The book teems with technical details and military terms; it gives blow by blow the story of every campaign, and almost every action.” — Marvin Lowenthal, Jewish Social Studies “Genuine history, admirably written...” — Bernard Fergussen, London Daily Telegraph “[Lorch] writes with a clarity quite unusual in military specialists... superbly written and fascinating.” — The Cape Argus, Capetown “The most detailed and most searching study of this momentous little war which has yet been published. It is also remarkably readable... it teaches quietly and with no brashness, a number of salutary lessons, strategic and tactical, logistic and moral, which every soldier ought to ponder... Lorch’s narrative is as candid as it is well marshalled. He is not sparing in his criticism of Israeli mistakes. He does not sneer and he does not exult.” — Journal of the Royal United Services Institution

The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict [4 volumes] [4 volumes]

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851098429
Total Pages : 1741 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict [4 volumes] [4 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 1741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive work offers readers at multiple levels key insights into the military, political, social, cultural, and religious origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History is the first comprehensive general reference encompassing all aspects of the contentious Arab-Israeli relationship from biblical times to the present, with an emphasis on the era beginning with World War I. The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict goes beyond simply recapping military engagements. In four volumes, with more than 750 alphabetically organized entries, plus a separate documents volume, it provides a wide-ranging introduction to the distinct yet inextricably linked Arab and Israeli worlds and worldviews, exploring all aspects of the conflict. The objective analysis will help readers understand the dramatic events that have impacted the entire world, from the founding of modern Israel to the building of the Suez Canal; from the Six-Day War to the Camp David Accords; from the assassinations of Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin to the rise and fall of Yasser Arafat, the 2006 Palestinian elections, and the Israeli-Hezbollah War in Lebanon.

Landscape and Ideology

Author : Doron Bar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110491486
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Landscape and Ideology written by Doron Bar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the formative years of Israel’s evolving symbolic landscape (1904–1967). It covers the stories of a few dozen Jews who passed away in the Diaspora and later their remains were taken to be buried for the second time (and sometimes for the third) in Israel. These were Zionists and politicians, writers and poets, heroes and public activists whose common denominator was that they all passed away in the Diaspora, far and detached from the national homeland that they fought for before their tragic death. Only later, in an act of repair, their coffins were sent to be buried in the “sacred” Zionist soil, in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Dgania. These graves became pilgrimage sites and contributed to the design of Israel’s landscape. The book examines how and why such great effort was made to bring their remains to Israel for reinterment, and how the funerals and graves of the public figures became state symbols and national instruments for establishing Israeli sovereignty over the land.