Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: The Roots of the "New Yishuv"
1. Letter of Complaint to the Settlers of Rishon Le-Tsion (1883) - Baron Edmond De Rothschild
2. Dispensation for the Sabbatical Year (1888)
3. The Rothschild Administration (1890) - Mordechai Ben Hillel Ha-Kohen
4. Truth from Eretz Yisrael (1891) - Ahad Ha-Am
5. Outline for an Agenda (1906) - Ha-Po‘el Ha-Tsa’ir
6. Platform (1906) and Proposal for a Program (1907) - Po‘alei Tsion
7. The Strike at Kinneret Farm (1911) - David Ben-Gurion
8. The Yemenite Immigrants and Their Absorption in the Settlements (1913) - Shmuel Yavnieli
9. Founding Statement (1909) - Ha-Shomer
10. Letters from an Anonymous Farm Wife of the First Aliyah (1889)
11. Pioneer Women of the Second Aliyah
12. Jaffa Changes Its Face (1907) - Ze‘ev Smilansky
Section II: Building the Jewish National Home
13. The Selection of the Fittest (1919) - Arthur Ruppin
14. The Collective Agricultural Settlements in Palestine (1927) - Yitzahak Wilkansky
15. Song of the Valley (1934) - Nathan Alterman
16. Going Down to the Sea (1937) - David Ben-Gurion
17. Labor Incidents in Palestine (1925) - William Ormsby Gore
18. The Pechter Strike (1927) - Anonymous Jewish Workers
19. The Labor Brigade (1926)
20. Tel Aviv (1933) - Yitzhak Gruenbaum
21. Tel Aviv as a Jewish City (1939)
22. Platform for the 1931 Elections to the Representative Assembly (1931) - Union of the United General Zionist
23. Thou Shalt Not Wear Sha‘atnez (1929) - Vladimir Jabotinsky
24. Betar and the Zionist Revolution (1932) - Yehoshua Heschel Yevin
25. The Strike at the Froumine Biscuit Factory (1932)
26. Labor Disputes and Acts of Violence (1934) - David Remez
27. Rabbi Herzog on the Chief Rabbinate (ca. 1948)
28. Public Announcement (1938) - The Neturei Karta Community of Haredy Jewry
Section III: Forging a Modern Hebrew Culture in the Land of Israel
29. Plain Language Association (1889) - Eliezer Ben Yehuda
30. How to Spread the Use of Hebrew (1927) - Menachem Ussishkin
31. Purim Celebrations in Tel Aviv (1931)
32. The National and Cultural Importance of Bezalel (1930) - Joseph Klausner
33. The Hebrew Stage: Moriah, not Acropolis (1926) - Avigdor Hameiri
34. Mordechai Golinkin and the Palestine Opera (1927)
35. The Cinema Controversy in Tel Aviv (1932)
36. The Hebrew University (1925) - Chaim Weizmann
Section IV: Jewish -Arab Conflict and Zionist Responses
37. The Need for Defense (1919) - Yitzhak Tabenkin
38. Tel Hai (1920) - Y. H. Brenner
39. Yizkor (1920) - Berl Katznelson
40. Response to the Arab Riots (1930) - General Federation of Laborers in the Land of Israel
41. The Future of Zionist Policy (1932) - Chaim Arlosoroff
42. On the Partition of Palestine (1937) - David Ben-Gurion
43. Platform for Judeo-Arab Accord (1930) - Chaim Margalit-Kalvarisky
44. Platform (1942) - Ihud
45. On the Iron Wall (1923) - Vladimir Jabotinsky
46. On Militarism (1929) - Vladimir Jabotinsky
Section V: World War II, The Holocaust, and the Yishuv
47. Diary (1940–41) - Arthur Ruppin
48. Introduction to The Book of Valor (1941) - Berl Katznelson
49. On the Defense of Palestine and the Jews (1942) - David Ben-Gurion
50. Origins of the Palmach (1941–42)
51. The Palmach’s First Operations (1944) - Yitzhak Sadeh
52. The Palmach Anthem (1941) - Zerubavel Gilad
53. Outlines of Zionist Policy (1941) - David Ben-Gurion
54. Liberating Jerusalem (1942) - Irgun Tzva'i Le'umi
55. Four Years (1943) - Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsa’ir
56. Works of Avraham Stern and Lehi (1932–ca. 1943)
Section VI: The Struggle for Palestine and the Establishment of the State
57. The Silver Platter (1947) - Nathan Alterman
58. A Jewish Child’s Letter to an Israeli Soldier (1948)
59. Public Opinion during the 1948 War
60. Radio Broadcasts from The Voice of Fighting Zion (1947)
61. Deir Yassin (1948) - The Voice of Fighting Zion
62. The Status Quo Agreements (1947)
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