Suchergebnisse

1. The Despair from Europe : Moshe Leib Lilienblum -- 2. Moshe Ayzman : Monotheism and 'Pan-Abrahamism' -- 3. Love of Zion and 'The New Crusade' -- 4. Mordechai Ze'ev Feierberg - 'Eastward, Eastward!' -- 5. Rabbi Binyamin and Pan-Semitism and Pan-Asianism Late Ottoman Period -- 6. Rabbi Binyamin and Pan-Semitism (part 2) - The British Mandate Period -- 7. From Europeanism to Asianism? Moshe Ya'acov Ben-Gavriel and 'Pan-Asian Zionism' -- 8. From Rabbi Binyamin to Uri Avnery - Pan-Semitism, Pan-Asianism and the 'Semitic Action'.

"The political upheavals, the leadership crisis, and the ideological frustration which the Israeli Labour party went through in the first two decades of the 21st century led it to an unprecedented electoral decline. What happened to the formerly dominant party which established the state? What kind of intrinsic changes did it undergo in the late modernity and due to new sociological generations? What kind of new or old ideological discourses were formed within it? And how can we characterize its renewed ideological discourse? These questions stood at the background of this ethnographic study. The study focuses on young, idealistic activists who joined the Israeli Labour Party during 2006-2009 and asked to promote a social-democratic agenda. The book is based on multi-arena fieldwork and it enables a rare ethnographic reflection on the way macro level political changes take shape and are embodied in interpersonal interactions on the micro level."--Publisher's description

This book is the first attempt to review the history and the fall of the Jewish community that existed in Beit She'an from the late 19th century until the outbreak of the Arab Revolt in 1936. The story of the community, which has been almost completely forgotten by the public and academic consciousness, is based on an initial study of several public and local archives, as well as a thorough study of dozens of primary and secondary sources of various types: press clippings, academic and autobiographical sources, oral interviews and others. Beside presenting the history of the community itself, which includes the unique challenges it experienced during its fifty years of existence and the organizational and ideological processes which characterized it, the study is also a base for a better assessment and understanding of the several small Jewish communities that existed during this period in a number of Arab cities and towns: Be'er Sheva, Ramle, Nazareth, Samakh, Jericho and others. This is accomplished by comparing the events in Beit She'an to those which took place in other communities, while trying to identify the factors that led to the collapse of these communities during the Mandate period, and to the withdrawal of the Zionist movement from its substantial support to their continued existence. The book also deals with different questions of ethnic and national Jewish identity, the relations between marginal communities and the leading national institutions, and issues relating to Zionist historiography over the past century