Description
Book SynopsisPalestine for the Third Time is a book of reportage originally published in Poland in 1933 by Ksawery Pruszyński, a young reporter working for a Polish newspaper, who went to Mandate Palestine to see for himself whether the Zionist dream of returning to Eretz Yisrael had a chance of turning into reality. Travelling widely and talking to people he happened to meet on his way-Jews, Arabs, committed dreamers and the disaffected-he was trying to explain to his readers what he was seeing. This book is a unique firsthand account of the early stages in formation of the state and nation of Israel. But it's not just a nostalgic vignette. It resonates powerfully today, linking Tony Judt, Edward Said, and Amos Oz, illuminating the hotly debated questions of modern Israel.
Table of Contents
- Foreword: Ksawery Pruszyński
- Antony Polonsky
- Introduction
- Wiesiek Powaga
- Foreword
- 1. On a Bunk Bed with the Halutzim
- 2. The Dust of the Road
- 3. The Land Without Crises
- 4. More Beautiful Than Paris
- 5. The Jews Who Do Not Like It Here
- 6. The Onward March of Israel
- 7. Suppliers of Men and Money
- 8. Malaria and Millions
- 9. Histadrut Haovdim
- 10. Like Stones Thrown against a Bulwark
- 11. Trekking across Emek Israel
- 12. Sabras of Ein Harod
- 13. Gesher
- 14. Glass Towers Are not a Myth
- 15. From Ghetto to Kibbutz
- 16. The Dollar Falls Twenty Percent
- 17. Only Four Weeks
- 18. The Wailing Wall
- 19. Socialism
- 20. Collective Love
- 21. Kibbutz, Kolkhoz, Cloister
- 22. The Jewish Population Catches Up
- 23. In the Eyes of Young Islam
- 24. Arabs in the Eyes of Jews
- 25. Christian Jerusalem
- 26. Nineteen Centuries after Pilate: A Night in Gethsemane
- 27. The Way of the Cross
- 28. Resurrexit
- 29. So Many Different Roads: "Das Wirkliche Deutschland"
- 30. "A Daemonio Meridiano . . . "
- 31. Roads
- 32. The Threat of Soviet Cannons
- Afterword
- Appendix: Ksawery Pruszyński's Speeches to the UN
