The Oldest Guard
Forging the Zionist Settler Past
Liora R. Halperin
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The Oldest Guard
Forging the Zionist Settler Past
Liora R. Halperin
Ă propos de ce livre
The Oldest Guard tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies ( moshavot ) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. Though they grew into the backbone of lucrative citrus and wine industries of mandate Palestine and Israel, absorbed tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants, and became known as the "first wave" (First Aliyah) of Zionist settlement, these communities have been regardedâand disregardedâin the history of Zionism as sites of conservatism, lack of ideology, and resistance to Labor Zionist politics.
Treating the "First Aliyah" as a symbol created and deployed only in retrospect, Liora R. Halperin offers a richly textured portrait of commemorative practices between the 1920s and the 1960s. Drawing connections to memory practices in other settler societies, The Oldest Guard demonstrates how private agriculturalists and their advocates in the Zionist center and on the right celebrated and forged the "First Aliyah" past, revealing the centrality of settlement to Zionist collective memory and the politics of Zionist settler "firstness."
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Informations
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Map of âFirst Aliyahâ Colonies
- Introduction: Mother of the Colonies
- 1. Private Farmers and the Origins of âFirst Aliyahâ Claims-Making
- 2. Arab Labor and the Rhetoric of Hierarchical Coexistence in Mandate Palestine
- 3. The Old Guard on Display
- 4. The Colony and the Village: Constructions of Coexistence after the Nakba
- 5. Jewish Immigrants and the Politics of Settler âFirst Onesâ
- Conclusion: Thinking about the First Aliyah after 1967
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List