Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This rich and dynamic collection makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the various connections between East European Jewish history and Jewish society, culture, and politics in Ottoman/British Palestine and, later, Israel. The volume provides a welcome overview of many of the central themes and key questions regarding the intersection between these two societies in essays by many of the most important scholars working on this fascinating chapter in modern Jewish history." * Scott Ury, Tel Aviv University *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Kenneth B. Moss, Benjamin Nathans, and Taro Tsurumi
Part I. Imperial and National Crucibles
Chapter 1. "Little Russia" in Palestine? Imperial Past, National Future (1860-1948)
Israel Bartal
Chapter 2. From Hyphenated Jews to Independent Jews: The Collapse of the Russian Empire and the Change in the Relationship Between Jews and Others
Taro Tsurumi
Chapter 3. Jewish Palestine and Eastern Europe: I Am in the East and My Heart Is in the West
Anita Shapira
Chapter 4. Stateless Nation: A Reciprocal Motif Between Polish Nationalism and Zionism
Marcos Silber
Part II. Groups and Institutions
Chapter 5. The Paradox of Soviet Influence: The Case of Kibbutz Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsa'ir from the USSR
Ziva Galili
Chapter 6. Triumphs of Conservatism: Beit Yaakov and the Polish Origins of Haredi Girls' Education in Israel
Iris Brown (Hoizman)
Chapter 7. Hasidic Leadership: From Charismatic to Hereditary and Back
Benjamin Brown
Chapter 8. Connecting Poland and Palestine: The Organizational Model of He-Haluts
Rona Yona
Part III. Formations of Political Culture
Chapter 9. Israel's Polish Heritage
David Engel
Chapter 10. Violence as Political Experience among Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland
Kamil Kijek
Chapter 11. From Zionism as Ideology to the Yishuv as Fact: Polish Jewish Reorientations Toward Palestine Within and Beyond Zionism, 1927-1932
Kenneth B. Moss
Chapter 12. Hero Shtetls: Reading Civil War Self-Defense in the Yishuv
Mihály Kálmán
Part IV. Soviet Interludes
Chapter 13. American Jews and the Zionist Movements in the Soviet Union: The Joint and He-Haluts in Crimea in the 1920s
Chizuko Takao
Chapter 14. Refuseniks and Rights Defenders: Jews and the Soviet Dissident Movement
Benjamin Nathans
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
