Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine
Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine

Author: Ran Aharonson

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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It is commonly accepted that the initial Jewish resettlement of the Holy Land in the late nineteenth century laid the foundations of the State of Israel. But what were the key elements of that process, and who implemented it? What did the new enterprise look like, and what was its significance? These important yet often poorly understood issues are reconstructed and analysed in this unique study. Ran Aaronsohn provides fresh insight into the role played by Baron Edmond de Rothschild through his many and diverse agents (the administration) in the Jewish settlement movement and places the endeavour in global perspective by comparing it to the phenomenon of colonisation throughout the world. The author draws upon a wide array of sources -- including primary archival material from Israel and France -- and illustrates his narrative with maps and historical photos to create a richly detailed picture of a crucial period in Jewish history.

Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine
Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine

Author: Ran Aharonson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780742509146

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It is commonly accepted that the initial Jewish resettlement of the Holy Land in the late nineteenth century laid the foundations of the State of Israel. But what were the key elements of that process, and who implemented it? What did the new enterprise look like, and what was its significance? These important yet often poorly understood issues are reconstructed and analyzed in this unique study. Ran Aaronsohn provides fresh insight into the role played by Baron Edmond de Rothschild through his many and diverse agents (Othe administrationO) in the Jewish settlement movement and places the endeavor in global perspective by comparing it to the phenomenon of colonization throughout the world. The author draws upon a wide array of sources_including primary archival material from Israel and France_and illustrates his narrative with maps and historical photos to create a richly detailed picture of a crucial period in Jewish history.

Zionism and Technocracy
Zionism and Technocracy

Author: Derek Jonathan Penslar

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780253342904

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"Zionism and Technocracy is important reading for anyone seriously interested in the development of the Yishuv during the last decades of Ottoman rule."--Choice "... stimulating and well written... " --Shofar "A pioneering work on the most important aspect of early Zionist history, well researched, well written, highly to be recommended." --Walter Laqueur "Taut and well-written with a fresh approach, Penslar's painstakingly researched study fills an important gap in the literature on the early Yishuv." --The Jerusalem Post Magazine "Penslar has written one of the first 'social histories' of an important aspect of Zionism." --David Sorkin "... Penslar presents an alternative perspective of those early days of Jewish settlement. Instead of a tale of individuals and their efforts, it is history of the organizational efforts to develop the institutions needed to reestablish the Jewish presence on the land." --Midstream The creation of a Jewish homeland in modern Palestine represented a monumental technical achievement. This achievement, and the story of the Jewish technocrats from Central Europe who engineered it, is documented here for the first time--bringing together social, intellectual, and institutional history in a pathbreaking study.

Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914
Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914

Author: Gershon Shafir

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1996-08-19

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780520917415

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Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.

What Ifs of Jewish History
What Ifs of Jewish History

Author: Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09-08

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 110703762X

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Counterfactual history of the Jewish past inviting readers to explore how the course of Jewish history might have been different.

Sculpting a Life
Sculpting a Life

Author: Paula Birnbaum

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Published: 2023-02-07

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1684581133

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"The first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff, and the first to include stories from her unpublished "memoir," which focus on the artist's early life in Ukraine, her family's move to Palestine and Orloff's life there (1905-1910), and her subsequent years between Paris and Tel Aviv"--

Lawrence and Aaronsohn
Lawrence and Aaronsohn

Author: Ronald Florence

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-07-19

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 1101202432

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The rivalry that presaged the world's most tenacious conflict As the Arab-Israeli conflict continues to plague the Middle East, historian Ronald Florence offers extraordinary new insights on its origins. This is the story of T. E. Lawrence, the young British officer who became famous around the world as Lawrence of Arabia, Aaron Aaronsohn, an agronomist from Palestine, and the antagonism that divided them over the fate of the dying Ottoman Empire during World War I--a clash of visions that set Arab nationalism and Zionism on a direct collision course that reverberates to this day.

Ruling Palestine
Ruling Palestine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9789295004290

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"Addresses the issue of reparations for the forced eviction and displacement of Maya Achi communities in Guatemala, specifically in the context of the construction of the Pueblo Viejo-Quixal Hydroelectric Project (Chixoy Dam). Between 1980 and 1982, an estimated 440 persons of the Rió Negro community were brutally murdered in a series of massacres ... Both the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank provided funding for and supervised the Chixoy Dam Project. The Chixoy Dam case clearly highlights the complicity of international financial institutions, including the IDB and the World Bank, in the brutal and unlawful displacement of indigenous communities from their lands in Guatemala"--Back cover.

World War I [5 volumes]
World War I [5 volumes]

Author: Spencer C. Tucker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-10-28

Total Pages: 2532

ISBN-13: 1851099654

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Offering exhaustive coverage, detailed analyses, and the latest historical interpretations of events, this expansive, five-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and detailed reference source on the First World War available today. One hundred years after the beginning of World War I in 1914, this conflict still stands as perhaps the most important event of the 20th century. World War I toppled all of the existing empires at the time, transformed the Middle East, and vaulted the United States to becoming the world's leading economic power. Its effects were profound and lasting—and included outcomes that led to World War II. This multivolume encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging examination of World War I that covers all of the important battles; key individuals, both civilian and military; weapons and technologies; and diplomatic, social, political, cultural, military, and economic developments. Suitable as a reference tool for high school and undergraduate students as well as faculty members and graduate-level researchers, World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection offers accessible, in-depth information and up-to-date analyses in a format that lends itself to quick and easy use. The set comprises alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced entries accompanied by further reading selections as well as a comprehensive bibliography. A fifth volume provides chronologically arranged documents and an A–Z index.