Overview

"The idea of armed self-defense was never foreign to the Jews throughout their long years of exile in the diaspora, but in conditions of discrimination and persecution engaging in self-defense, fierce and courageous as it may have been, was no different from the supreme form of religious protest, namely martyrdom. Drawing on the roots of 19th century nationalism, mixed with religious messianic hopes, there gradually took hold the idea that some kind of military force was necessary in order to promote ideas of a return to the homeland and the Jewish national concept. The story of Bar Giora and Hashommer is one of the most enthralling subjects in Jewish history. the manifestation of the new Jew, who met force with force, was jealous of his honor, and defended the Jewish interest with weapon in hand, well suited the Zionist and Yishuv ethos. The founders of Bar Giora were a group of youngsters from Czarist Russia who dedicated themselves to providing security for the Jewish settlers. Their dream was to create a Jewish army. Later, in response to growing Arab nationalism Bar Giora was transformed into Hashomer (""The Watchman""). this group was dissolved in 1920 in order to establish the Hagana (""Defense""), which became the focus of Jewish defense during the Mandatory period. At the beginning of the Independence War in 1947, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) was created."

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Author:   Yaacov Goldstein ,  Dan Shomron
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781902210018

ISBN 10:   1902210018
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   01 January 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword by Yoav Gelber; Introduction; The First Aliya: Defense and Guarding; The Heroic Phase; Protection by Baron Rothschild; The Transition to the JCA (1900); The Second Aliya: Ideology and Organisation; The Wellsprings of Bar Giora and Hashomer; The Founding of Bar Giora; Social and Cultural Background of the Founders; The Eighth Zionist Congress at The Hague; From Bar Giora to Hashomer; An Operational Base: From Sejera to Kefar Tabor; The Creation of Hashomer; Ideology, Structure and Institutions; Operational Methods Take Shape: 1908--1913; The Labour Legion; Internal Problems: blood feud (gum); agricultural settlement; leadership; cultural aspect; Hashomer and the Yishuv; The Attitude of the Workers' Parties; Hashomer, Institutions of the Yishuv, and the Zionist Movement; Other Guarding Organisations in the Yishuv; The Organisation and Ideology of Hashomer; Organisational and Practical Aspects: threshold of change (from August 1914 until the end of the year); decline (from the end of 1914 until August 1916); the awakening (August 1916-September 1917); the brink of dissolution (September 1917-April 1919); Ideological and Political Changes: underground-revolutionary stage (September 1907-April 1909); the legal stage (April 1909-late 1914, early 1915); ideological revolution (early 1915-British conquest); The Status of Women in Hashomer; The Second Aliya; Services and Welfare; The Attitude Toward the Arabs; The Poaley Zion Party; Hashomer and the Arab Milieu; Daily Relations with the Arabs; The Test of Guarding; The Disbanding of Hashomer; The End of the War; Why was Hashomer Dissolved?: rural and urban defence; organisation: limited and selective, or popular and general?; authority and sovereignty From Unity to Dissolution, 1920-1927; The Mis-Step (12 June 1920-End of 1922): attitude to the security issue; Ahdut Ha'avoda and the Histadrut; the alternative: The Joseph Trumpeldor Labor Battalion; The Intolerable dualism (June 1920-End of 1923): the founding of Hakibbutz; the period of dualism; Activities of Hakibbutz: separate frameworks; The Rift and the End (1923-1927); The Hapoel Association, 1930-1935; Struggle between the Palestinian Labour Movement and Revisionism for Hegemony over Zionism (1925--1933): the ideological-political clash; struggle over Weizmann's succession (1929--1931); labor relations and violence; The Hagana: From Histadrut Control to National Control: the 1929 disturbances and split in the Hagana; transition from Histadrut control to national control; Special Concepts, Special Tools: David Ben-Gurion in 1928-1931: struggle for the creation of The League for Labour Palestine; tendency to convert Hapoel into a Palestinian Schutzbund; integration of Hashomer people in Hapoel (1930-1934); The Conflict Years (1931-1934): debate over the nature and purpose of Hapoel; debate on violence in Mapai; establishment of the Hasadran Attendants' Association; Swan-Song (1934-1935): From Class to Nation' -- Ben-Gurion's change in attitude to the Zionist Organisation and the struggle against Revisionism; Why did Hashomer people resign from Hapoel institutions?; Epilogue: the Hapoel Companies (1936); Conclusions.

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Deepens our understanding regarding the crystalization of the Yishuv's national institutions. -- The Journal of Israeli History

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