The Illegals (Meir Levin, 1948), which was produced by Americans for the Haganah (AFH) is the only film to provide real-time documentation of these survivors' attempts to immigrate illegally to ...Palestine. However, despite the film's significance as a unique visual document, it was not screened when it most mattered, before the founding of the State of Israel, and over the years has been marginalized in the Zionist collective memory and in Zionist research. Based on primary and secondary historical sources, this article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the behind- the-scenes story of The Illegals and its post-production difficulties. It examines the disagreements, the misunderstandings, and the reasons why it failed to reach its potential audiences in time, all of which caused one of the most important documentaries in the history of Zionism to sink into oblivion.
This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, ...when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took on massive proportions, producing a cohort of radicalized activists - committed to socialism, nationalism, or both - who would exert an extraordinary influence on Jewish history in the twentieth-century in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Palestine. Frankel describes the dynamics of 1905 and the leading role of the intelligentsia as revolutionaries, ideologues, and observers. But, elsewhere, he also looks backwards to the emergent stage of modern Jewish politics in both Russia and the West and forward to the part played by the veterans of 1905 in Palestine and the United States.
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Review of: A Broken Trust: Sir Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians, Sahar Huneidi, foreword by Walid Khalidi (2001)London: I. B. Tauris, 340 pp.,ISBN 978-1-86064-172-5, h/bk, out-of-printThe ...Palestine Deception, 1915-1923: The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence,
the Balfour Declaration, and the Jewish National Home, J. M. N. Jeffries, edited and with an introduction by William M. Mathew (2014)Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies-USA, 175 pp.,ISBN 978-0-88728-320-8, p/bk, $16.00Palestine. The Reality. The Inside
Story of the Balfour Declaration 1917-1938, J. M. N. Jeffries, with a new introduction by Ghada Karmi (2017)Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 800 pp.,ISBN 978-1-56656-024-5, p/bk, $30Israel's Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the
Palestine Conflict, Walter L. Hixson (2019)Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 324 pp.,ISBN 978-1-108-70532-5, p/bk, $29.99
In this volume, international researchers examine transformative processes of Jewish youth movements in Europe and Palestine between 1918 and 1945. They focus on the thoroughly controversial ...responses of youth to questions of tradition and future national, religious, and social community new education and equitable gender relations.
This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it comprises research monographs, collections of essays and annotated editions from the 18th century to the present. The ...term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that Jewish aspects can be identified in these. However, the image of Jews among non-Jewish authors, often determined by anti-Semitism, is also a factor in the history of German-Jewish relations as reflected in literature. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.
Zionism emerged at the end of the nineteenth century in response to a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe and to the crisis of modern Jewish identity. This novel, national revolution aimed to unite a ...scattered community, defined mainly by shared texts and literary tradition, into a vibrant political entity destined for the Holy Land. However, Zionism was about much more than a national political ideology and practice. By tracing its origins in the context of a European history of ideas and by considering the writings of key Jewish and Hebrew writers and thinkers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book offers an entirely new philosophical perspective on Zionism as a unique movement based on intellectual boldness and belief in human action. In counter-distinction to the studies of history and ideology that dominate the field, this book also offers a new way of reflecting upon contemporary Israeli politics.
The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex
encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to
the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth
century, some ...forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on
the peripheries of the French state, not considered French by
others or by themselves. Two hundred years later, in 1989, France
celebrated the anniversary of the Revolution with the largest, most
vital Jewish population in western and central Europe. Paula Hyman
looks closely at the period that began when France's Jews were
offered citizenship during the Revolution. She shows how they and
succeeding generations embraced the opportunities of integration
and acculturation, redefined their identities, adapted their
Judaism to the pragmatic and ideological demands of the time, and
participated fully in French culture and politics. Within this same
period, Jews in France fell victim to a secular political
antisemitism that mocked the gains of emancipation, culminating
first in the Dreyfus Affair and later in the murder of one-fourth
of them in the Holocaust. Yet up to the present day, through
successive waves of immigration, Jews have asserted the
compatibility of their French identity with various versions of
Jewish particularity, including Zionism. This remarkable view in
microcosm of the modern Jewish experience will interest general
readers and scholars alike.
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