Israel
The First Hundred Years

This volume addresses the intellectual, social and political ramifications of Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel before the creation of the State of Israel.

The birth of the Zionist Movement, coming in the wake of Jewish emancipation in Western Europe and at a time of intensified persecution of Jewry in Eastern Europe, meant that for the first time since Jewish dispersion, the possibility of the Jews discarding their minority status in the lands they inhabited and creating their own home in their ancestral homeland became a reality, however incomprehensible it may have appeared in these early years. The next half a century saw great strides in the economic, social and political life of the Yishuv that culminated in the creation of the State of Israel. Zionism altered the relationship between Jews in Mandatory Palestime and the Jewish communities of the diaspora, between Jews and their Palestinian-Arab contemporaries and ultimately between Jewry and the British mandatory power. With contributions for scholars of Zionism and israeli history, this volume addresses the inellectual, social and political ramifications of Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel before the Creation of the State of Israel.

Part 1 Nations, nationalism and state-building: sacred territories and national conflict, Anthony D. Smith
from "state
within a state" to state, David Vital
from civil society to sovereign state - the Israeli experience and the Palestinian quest, Donna Robinson Divine. Part 2 The making of the Yishuv: the Jews in Eretz-Israel/Palestine - from traditional peripherally to modern centrality, Ruth Kark, Joseph B. Glass
the boundaries of mandatory Palestine - how the past influences the future, Gideon Biger
Zionism and Jerusalem - the
conflict of priorities -changes in Zionist settlement in the Jerusalem vicinity, 1937-48, Yossi Katz
railways in Israel - the past and the future, Walter Rothschild
the Hebrew absorption of German literature I the Yishuv, Na'ama Sheffi
the ideological and political background of the Israel defence forces, Yaacov N. Goldstein. Part 3 The struggle for independence: Jewish armed struggle in Palestine in the 1940s -its impact on British morale and public opinion, Shaul Zadka

the other side of the coin - Arab propaganda and the battle
against Zionism in London, 1937-48, Rory Miller
the Jewish
and Arab lobbies in Canada and the UN partition of Palestine, Eliezer Tauber.