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From Europe's east to the Middle East : Israel's Russian and Polish lineages / edited by Kenneth B. Moss, Benjamin Nathans, and Taro Tsurumi.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DS135.E83 F76 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jewish culture and contexts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- Jews, East European--Palestine--History--20th century.
- Jews, East European.
- Jews, East European--Israel--History--20th century.
- Zionism--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Zionism.
- History.
- Palestine--History--20th century.
- Palestine.
- Israel--History--20th century.
- Israel.
- Eastern Europe.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 396 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "From Europe's East to the Middle East seeks to both renew and recast our understanding of the tumultuous and entangled histories of East European Jewry, the transnational movement that Zionism became, and the settler society from which the country that is contemporary Israel emerged"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. "Little Russia" in Palestine? Imperial past, national future (1860-1948) / Israel Bartal
- Chapter 2. From hyphenated Jews to independent Jews : the collapse of the Russian Empire and the change in the relationship between Jews and others / Taro Tsurumi
- Chapter 3. Jewish Palestine and Eastern Europe : I am in the East and my heart is in the West / Anita Shapira
- Chapter 4. Stateless nation : a reciprocal motif between Polish nationalism and Zionism / Marcos Silber
- Chapter 5. The paradox of Soviet influence : the case of Kibbutz Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsa'ir from the USSR / Ziva Galili
- Chapter 6. Triumphs of conservatism : Beit Yaakov and the Polish origins of haredi girls' education in Israel / Iris Brown (Hoizman)
- Chapter 7. Hasidic leadership : from charismatic to hereditary and back / Benjamin Brown
- Chapter 8. Connecting Poland and Palestine : the organizational model of He-Haluts / Rona Yona
- Chapter 9. Israel's Polish heritage / David Engel
- Chapter 10. Violence as political experience among Jewish youth in interwar Poland / Kamil Kijek
- Chapter 11. From Zionism as ideology to the Yishuv as fact : Polish Jewish reorientations toward Palestine within and beyond Zionism, 1927-1932 / Kenneth B. Moss
- Chapter 12. Hero shtetls : reading civil war self-defense in the Yishuv / Mihály Kálmán
- Chapter 13. American Jews and the Zionist movements in the Soviet Union : The Joint and He-Haluts in Crimea in the 1920s / Chizuko Takao
- Chapter 14. Refuseniks and rights defenders : Jews and the Soviet dissident movement / Benjamin Nathans.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812253092
- 0812253094
- OCLC:
- 1237632402
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