Land and Desire in Early Zionism (The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies),Used

Land and Desire in Early Zionism (The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies),Used

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This innovative study examines the responses of earlytwentiethcentury 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 identifydesire. 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 understandingsmany of them utterly surprisingof 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!

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