by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem- Three Generations, 1919-2003 / Nurit Kena’an-Kedar 2003, 166 pp., album format; many colored illustrations (Published with the Eretz Israel Museum) (English) Ben-Gurion- Politics and Leadership in Israel / Ronald W. Zweig...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
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 updated ed. New York- Penguin Books, 2001. Scholarly...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
• 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 country? The Muslim faith? The term “Arab” is believed to have first been used in the...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
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 cornerstone of the Mikveh Israel school, the first Jewish settlement in...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
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 250,000 in North Africa and tens of thousands in...
by hadassah | Apr 15, 2008 | The Land of Israel in Ancient Medieval and Early Modern Times
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 the Jewish population to a critical mass, the collapse of the imperial order in the...
