The Canadian Jewish Community and the Politics of Quebec Independance
Women and Women’s Issues in Israeli Politics
Financial and Human Capital Flows into Israel: What Role for Public Policy?
The Jewish Community of Cracow
Palestinian Statehood, Autonomy, or Confederation: The Impacts on Israeli Security
Jewish-Israeli Identity among Israel’s Future Teachers
The question of Jewish-Israeli identity is one of present-day Israeli society’s cardinal and pressing issues. The identity of a citizen of Israel is not that of a purely Israeli identity, nor is it a purely Jewish identity. It is, in varying degrees, a synthesis of Jewish and Israeli components, depending on the particular subgroups or subidentities. Stress develops around the relationship between Jewishness and Israeliness and around the relationship between Jewish religion and Jewish nationality. Our findings revealed four distinct models of Jewish-Israeli identity: I) Non-religious (secular); 2) Traditionalist (religious tradition-oriented); 3) National religious (State Religious sector); 4) Ultra-Orthodox (Independent sector). A meaningful shift has occurred in the attitude of Israeli youth toward the Holocaust.
Changing Concepts of Movement Democracy: The Case of the Israeli Labor Movement
This article identifies and analyzes three concepts of democracy that have developed in the history of the Israeli Labor movement: institutional, competitive and pioneer. The institutional concept originated in the Labor party, and the Federation of Labor (Histadrut); the competitive concept was fully articulated by members of the circle of young leaders of Mapai in the 1950s; and the pioneer concept was developed by the collectivist kibbutz movement. The differences among the three concepts are discussed in relation to the suggested distinction between a system of democratic choice and a system of democratic approval.
Shlichim from Palestine in Libya
Contacts between the Jewish communities of Palestine and the diaspora continued throughout the ages by shlichim (emissaries) who were sent from Palestine. This essay examines the background, goals, and activities of shlichim to Libya in the twentieth century, taking the earlier period as a background. In addition to traditional emissaries, an increasing number of Zionist ones were sent to Libya, at first imitating the practices of traditional ones. Gradually, the Zionist emissaries tried to transform the community and prepare it for emigration to Israel professionally, socially, culturally, and politically.
The Jewish Farmers in Belarus During the 1920s
Revolution and civil war in Russia (1917-1921) precipitated far reaching changes in the life of Belarus Jewry. The shtetls (settlements) were extremely overpopulated and Jews eventually sought and found an escape. In 1923,18 percent of Soviet Jewry lived in Belarus. This essay describes the attitude of the authorities to the problem of Jewish land tenure regulation in the New Economic Policy, creation of individual farms, cooperatives and collective farms, and attitudes to that of the Belarussian peasantry
The Unknown Essays of Vladimir Jabotinsky (Research Note) by Louis Gordon
While most of Vladimir Jabotinsky’s articles have been published in various volumes of collected writings and have thus been available to scholars for years, a number of his
essays remain unknown to both scholars as well as his disciples. This is largely due to the fact that the Revisionist party’s archives were destroyed during the bombing of London, but also because of the wide range of publications in which Jabotinsky published. This article introduces four recently discovered essays, “Self-Administration for
Palestine” (1920), “The Justice of the Jewish Claim” (1921), “Shall the Jewish Middleman be Spared” (1930), and “The Jewish Mission, the Religious Ideals of the Jew and of the Aryan Compared” (1923), and discusses how they add to our understanding of Jabotinsky as well as their continued relevance for our own era.”
This is Only the Fact, But We Have the Idea: Solomon Schechter’s Path to Zionism
In 1905, after much hesitation, and in spite of significant opposition from lay supporters of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Solomon Schechter declared publicly his allegiance to Zionism. This essay explores his path to that occurrence, and argues that three factors influenced his course of action. First, the events of 1904 and 1905: Herzl’s death, the Russian pogroms in the fall of 1905, and the continuing interest in territorialism, all of which suggested a need for leadership and a program that could unify world Jewry.
Bernhard Felsenthal: The Zionization of a Radical Reform Rabbi
This article traces Bernhard Felsenthal’s ideological and institutional odyssey from extreme radical Reform to committed Zionism. In the face of the overwhelming opposition of his Reform colleagues, Felsenthal endorsed and embraced the nascent Zionist movement and devoted his final years to its support.
The Jewish Community of Vienna: Existing Against all Odds
The Israeli – Maghreb Connection: Past Contacts, Future Prospects
No Security, No Peace
Historic turning points are not always easy to discern. The September 1993 handshake on the White House lawn between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat appeared to be such a turning point, representing the beginning of Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation.
