|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Land and Desire in Early Zionism
Brandeis University Press, 2011 Paper: 978-1-58465-968-6 | eISBN: 978-1-61168-015-7 | Cloth: 978-1-58465-967-9 Library of Congress Classification DS149.N49813 2011 Dewey Decimal Classification 320.540956940904
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This innovative study examines the responses of early-twentieth-century pioneers to “the Land” of Palestine. Early Zionist historiography portrayed these young settlers as heroic; later, more critical studies by the “new” historians and sociologists focused on their failures and shortcomings. Neumann argues for something else that historians have yet to identify—desire. Desire for the Land and a visceral identification with it begin to explain the pioneer experience and its impact on Israeli history and collective memory, as well as on Israelis’ abiding connection to the Land of Israel. His close readings of archival documents, memoirs, diaries, poetry, and prose of the period develop new understandings—many of them utterly surprising—of the Zionist enterprise. For Neumann, the Zionist revolution was an existential revolution: for the pioneers, to be in the Land of Israel was to be! See other books on: Desire | Israel | Israel & Palestine | Land | Palestine See other titles from Brandeis University Press |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Nearby on shelf for History of Asia / Israel (Palestine). The Jews / Jews outside of Palestine:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![](https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-299-34284-5-thumb.jpg "Germans and Jews: The Right, the Left, and the Search for a "Third Force" in Pre-Nazi Germany")
Land and Desire in Early Zionism
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
Brandeis University Press, 2011
Paper: 978-1-58465-968-6
eISBN: 978-1-61168-015-7
Cloth: 978-1-58465-967-9
Paper: 978-1-58465-968-6
eISBN: 978-1-61168-015-7
Cloth: 978-1-58465-967-9
This innovative study examines the responses of early-twentieth-century pioneers to “the Land” of Palestine. Early Zionist historiography portrayed these young settlers as heroic; later, more critical studies by the “new” historians and sociologists focused on their failures and shortcomings. Neumann argues for something else that historians have yet to identify—desire. Desire for the Land and a visceral identification with it begin to explain the pioneer experience and its impact on Israeli history and collective memory, as well as on Israelis’ abiding connection to the Land of Israel. His close readings of archival documents, memoirs, diaries, poetry, and prose of the period develop new understandings—many of them utterly surprising—of the Zionist enterprise. For Neumann, the Zionist revolution was an existential revolution: for the pioneers, to be in the Land of Israel was to be!
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
