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
