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Nation-Building and Community in Israel /

The author approaches the intricate process of nation-building in Israel through an examination of transformations which took place within a major development sector, rural land settlement, during Israel's first decade of statehood. Based on four years of observation in Israel, the study analyz...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willner, Dorothy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2016, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Pre-Statehood Foundations of the New Society and its Land Settlement Sector
  • III. The Moshav Ovdim as Model for the Moshav Olim
  • IV. Organization of Land Settlement after the Establishment of the New State
  • V. The Phase of Rationalization
  • VI. A Burgeoning Bureaucracy and the New Society
  • VII. Jews in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco: A Partial Reconstruction
  • VIII. Ometz: The First Year of a Successful Moshav Olim
  • IX. Variability in Village Development
  • X. Epilogue: Nation-Building and the New Society
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index