by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
The Institute for the Research of Eretz-Israel, Its People and Cultures, Yad Ben-Zvi, Catalogue of Publications. Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem- Three Generations, 1919-2003 / Nurit Kena’an-Kedar 2003, 166 pp., album format; many colored illustrations...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
Document Collections and Scholarly Books Document collections- Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea. Philadelphia- JPS, 1997. Laqueur, Walter, and Barry M. Rubin. The Israel-Arab Reader – A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict. 6th rev. and...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
Notes from Lewis, Bernard, The Arabs in History, Harper and Row, NY 1960. • Arab nationalism is a relatively new concept, born of Western imperialism in the early part of the 20th century. What defines an Arab? The Arabic language? Citizenship in an Arab...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
Zionist Milestones, The Jewish Agency for Israel, 2001. May 2, 1860 Birth of Benyamin Zeev Herzl, founder of political Zionism and the visionary of the State of Israel. June 15, 1870 Karl (Charles) Netter settles in a cave south of Jaffa and lays the...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
Zionism: The First 120 Years, 1882-2002. Based on Zionism- The First 120 Years, 1882-2002, by Mordecai Naor, The Zionist Library, Jerusalem. See The Jewish Agency. 1800 –There are some 3,750,000 Jews in the world – 2,750,000 in Europe, 300,000 in Asia, some...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
The Land of Israel, 1800-1948: Introduction, Ron Zweig, David Engel, COJS. During the century and a half before the State of Israel was established, the crucial ingredients necessary for creating the State came into being. Those ingredients were expansion of...