Foundations of Israel : emergence of a welfare state / Oscar I. Janowsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janowsky, Oscar I. (Oscar Isaiah), 1900-1993, author.

Series:

Van Nostrand anvil books ; Volume 41.

Van Nostrand anvil books ; Volume 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel--History.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations, map.

Other Title:

Foundations of Israel

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Van Nostrand, 1959.

Contents:

Origins: Jews and Palestine before world war I

The balfour declaration and the Palestine mandate

Palestine and world war II

Building the Jewish national home

Distinctive features of the Jewish national home

From national home to sovereign state

State and government

Political development

Population problems

Welfare-state ideals

Economic realities

International relations

The Basle program, august 1897

The balfour declaration, November 2, 1917

The mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922

The joint congressional resolution on the Jewish national home, June 30, 1922

British statement of policy on Palestine, may 17,1939

Observations of the permanent mandates commission on the policy laid down in the white paper of may, 1939

Palestine land transfers regulations, February 28, 1940

Immigration statistics

Immigration of Jews into Palestine, 1882-1948

Annual immigration into Israel, May 15, 1948-1957

Population statistic

Growth of Jewish population in Palestine, 1882-1948

Population of Israel, 1948-1957

Economic growth

Growth of Jewish industry and handicrafts, 1925-1943

Comparative data on middle eastern countries

The ideal of Halutzuit or dedicated pioneering

Sources of Jewish social idealism

Revival of Hebrew as a living language

The meaning of Aliya

Aaron David Gordon and the idealization of labor

Preliminary report to the president on displaced persons in Germany and Austria (the Harrison report), August, 1945

Letter from president Truman to prime minister Attlee, August 31, 1945

Concurrent congressional resolution, December, 1945

Recommendations of the Anglo-American committee of inquiry on Palestine, April 20, 1946

United nations general assembly resolution on the partition of Palestine, November 29, 1947: resolution 181(II)

The flight of the Arabs

The proclamation of independence, may 14, 1948

The national elections

Composition of governments or cabinets by parties

Growth of collective and cooperative agricultural settlements, 1946-1956

Balance of trade, 1949-1956

Tripartite (France, the united kingdom, and the united states) declaration of may 25, 1950

Israel's blueprint for peace.

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