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Army of shadows
Inspired by stories he heard in the West Bank as a child, Hillel Cohen uncovers a hidden history in this extraordinary and beautifully written book—a history central to the narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict but for the most part willfully ignored until now. In Army of Shadows, initially published in Israel to high acclaim and intense controversy, he tells the story of Arabs who, from the very beginning of the Arab-Israeli encounter, sided with the Zionists and aided them politically, economically, and in security matters. Based on newly declassified documents and research in Zionist, Arab, and British sources, Army of Shadows follows Bedouins who hosted Jewish neighbors, weapons dealers, pro-Zionist propagandists, and informers and local leaders who cooperated with the Zionists, and others to reveal an alternate history of the mandate period with repercussions extending to this day. The book illuminates the Palestinian nationalist movement, which branded these \"collaborators\" as traitors and persecuted them; the Zionist movement, which used them to undermine Palestinian society from within and betrayed them; and the collaborators themselves, who held an alternate view of Palestinian nationalism. Army of Shadows offers a crucial new view of history from below and raises profound questions about the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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The tragedy of a generation : the rise and fall of Jewish nationalism in Eastern Europe
The Tragedy of a Generation is the story of a failed ideal: an autonomous Jewish nation in Europe. It traces the origins of two influential strains of Jewish thought--Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism--and documents the waning hopes and painful reassessments of their leading representatives against the rising tide of Nazism and the Holocaust.
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Christian Statements to the Jewish World: Jewish Zionists, Anti-Zionists, and the Challenges of American Protestantism in the Early Years
In this article I offer a prologue to the more well-known story of the mid-century alliance between Jewish Zionists and liberal Protestants that took shape in the United States. In the early twentieth century, Zionism resonated widely with Protestants who harbored theologically conservative views about the end times and missionary aspirations with regard to Jews as part of their eschatology. Jewish Zionists discussed vigorously among themselves whether and exactly how to muster this reservoir of Christian Zionist support, whereas Jewish anti-Zionists seized on the opportunity to lampoon the movement for abetting Christian missionary efforts. These debates and polemics reveal just how critical American Protestantism was to the origins of Jewish Zionism in the US, setting the terms of fundamental organizational questions and even shaping how Jewish Zionists talked about their Zionism. They also suggest at least some continuity between this earlier anti-modernist variant of Christian Zionism and the more liberal one that came to dominate by the mid-twentieth century.
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The question of zion
Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate. So argues prominent British writer Jacqueline Rose, who uses her political and psychoanalytic skills in this book to take an unprecedented look at Zionism--one of the most powerful ideologies of modern times.
Rose enters the inner world of the movement and asks a new set of questions. How did Zionism take shape as an identity? And why does it seem so immutable? Analyzing the messianic fervor of Zionism, she argues that it colors Israel's most profound self-image to this day. Rose also explores the message of dissidents, who, while believing themselves the true Zionists, warned at the outset against the dangers of statehood for the Jewish people. She suggests that these dissidents were prescient in their recognition of the legitimate claims of the Palestinian Arabs. In fact, she writes, their thinking holds the knowledge the Jewish state needs today in order to transform itself.
In perhaps the most provocative part of her analysis, Rose proposes that the link between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state, so often used to justify Israel's policies, needs to be rethought in terms of the shame felt by the first leaders of the nation toward their own European history.
For anyone concerned with the conflict in Israel-Palestine, this timely book offers a unique understanding of Zionism as an unavoidable psychic and historical force.
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The Fervent Embrace
When Israel declared its independence in 1948, Harry Truman issued a memo recognizing the Israeli government within eleven minutes. Today, the U.S. and Israel continue on as partners in an at times controversial alliance - an alliance, many argue, that is powerfully influenced by the Christian Right. In The Fervent Embrace, Caitlin Carenen chronicles the American Christian relationship with Israel, tracing first mainline Protestant and then evangelical support for Zionism. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, American liberal Protestants argued that America had a moral humanitarian duty to support Israel. Christian anti-Semitism had helped bring about the Holocaust, they declared, and so Christians must help make amends. Moreover, a stable and democratic Israel would no doubt make the Middle East a safer place for future American interests. Carenen argues that it was this mainline Protestant position that laid the foundation for the current evangelical Protestant support for Israel, which is based primarily on theological grounds. Drawing on previously unexplored archival material from the Central Zionist Archives in Israel, this volume tells the full story of the American Christian-Israel relationship, bringing the various players - American liberal Protestants, American Evangelicals, American Jews, and Israelis - together into one historical narrative.
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Colonizing Palestine
Among the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements,
Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on
Zionist-Palestinian relations. Until the tumultuous end of the
British Mandate, movement settlers voiced support for a binational
Jewish-Arab state and officially opposed mass displacement of
Palestinians. But, Hashomer Hatzair colonies were also active
participants in the process that ultimately transformed large
portions of Palestine into sovereign Jewish territory. Areej
Sabbagh-Khoury investigates this ostensible dissonance, tracing how
three colonies gained control of land and their engagement with
Palestinian inhabitants on the edges of the Jezreel Valley/Marj Ibn
'Amer.
Based on extensive empirical research in local colony and
national archives, Colonizing Palestine offers a
microhistory of frontier interactions between Zionist settlers and
indigenous Palestinians within the British imperial field. Even as
left-wing kibbutzim of Hashomer Hatzair helped lay the groundwork
for settler colonial Jewish sovereignty, its settlers did not
conceal the prior existence of the Palestinian villages and their
displacement, which became the subject of enduring debate in the
kibbutzim. Juxtaposing history and memory, examining events in
their actual time and as they were later remembered, Sabbagh-Khoury
demonstrates that the dispossession and replacement of the
Palestinians in 1948 was not a singular catastrophe, but rather a
protracted process instituted over decades. Colonizing
Palestine traces social and political mechanisms by which
forms of hierarchy, violence, and supremacy that endure into the
present were gradually created.
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The Anglo-Jewish Economic Board for Palestine—The First Decade
The article explores the leading role played by the Anglo-Jewish “Economic Board for Palestine” in the economic reconstruction of Palestine during the first decade of the British Mandate. By presenting its collaborative efforts with four financial actors—the Zionist Organization, the government, individual organizations and private entrepreneurs, the article will shed a new light on the delicate relationship between Zionist and non-Zionist, private and national capital, and the formation of a powerful prototype of the Jewish Agency.
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Exiled in the homeland : Zionism and the return to mandate Palestine
Offering a new perspective on Zionism, Exiled in the Homeland draws on memoirs, newspaper accounts, and archival material to examine closely the lives of the men and women who immigrated to Palestine in the early twentieth century. Rather than reducing these historic settlements to a single, unified theme, Donna Robinson Divine’s research reveals an extraordinary spectrum of motivations and experiences among these populations. Though British rule and the yearning for a Jewish national home contributed to a foundation of solidarity, Exiled in the Homeland presents the many ways in which the message of emigration settled into the consciousness of the settlers. Considering the benefits and costs of their Zionist commitments, Divine explores a variety of motivations and outcomes, ranging from those newly arrived immigrants who harnessed their ambition for the goal of radical transformation to those who simply dreamed of living a better life. Also capturing the day-to-day experiences in families that faced scarce resources, as well as the British policies that shaped a variety of personal decisions on the part of the newcomers, Exiled in the Homeland provides new keys to understanding this pivotal chapter in Jewish history.
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Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938
This book is a comparative study of masculinity and white racial identity in Irish nationalism and Zionism.It analyses how both national movements sought to refute widespread anti-Irish or anti-Jewish stereotypes and create more prideful (and highly gendered) images of their respective nations.
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