From Europe's East to the Middle East : : Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages / / ed. by Taro Tsurumi, Kenneth Moss, Benjamin Nathans.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bartal, Israel,; Brown, Benjamin,; Brown, Iris,; Engel, David,; Galili, Ziva,; Kijek, Kamil,; Kálmán, Mihály,; Moss, Kenneth B.,; Nathans, Benjamin,; Shapira, Anita,; Silber, Marcos,; Takao, Chizuko,; Tsurumi, Taro,; Yona, Rona,
• HerausgeberIn: Moss, Kenneth,; Nathans, Benjamin,; Tsurumi, Taro,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.) :

The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish lands and the Russian Empire. This is a fact widely known, yet its implications for the history of Israel and the Middle East and, reciprocally, for the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Part I. Imperial and National Crucibles
• Chapter 1. “ Little Russia” in Palestine? Imperial Past, National Future (1860–1948)
• Chapter 2. From Hyphenated Jews to Independent Jews: The Collapse of the Rus sian Empire and the Change in the Relationship Between Jews and Others
• Chapter 3. Jewish Palestine and Eastern Eu rope: I Am in the East and My Heart Is in the West
• Chapter 4. Stateless Nation: A Reciprocal Motif Between Polish Nationalism and Zionism
• Part II. Groups and Institutions
• Chapter 5. The Paradox of Soviet Influence: The Case of Kibbutz Ha- Shomer Ha-Tsa‘ir from the USSR
• Chapter 6. Triumphs of Conservatism: Beit Yaakov and the Polish Origins of Haredi Girls’ Education in Israel
• Chapter 7. Hasidic Leadership: From Charismatic to Hereditary and Back
• Chapter 8. Connecting Poland and Palestine: The Organizational Model of He-Haluts
• Part III. Formations of Political Culture
• Chapter 9. Israel’s Polish Heritage
• Chapter 10. Violenceas Political Experience Among Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland
• Chapter 11. From Zionism as Ideology to the Yishuv as Fact: Polish Jewish Re orientations Toward Palestine Within and Beyond Zionism, 1927–1932
• Chapter 12. Hero Shtetls: Reading Civil War Self- Defense in the Yishuv
• 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
• Chapter 14. Refuseniks and Rights Defenders: Jews and the Soviet Dissident Movement
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments