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Overview"The Jewish women's revolution was one of the quietest and most angst-stricken of the revolutionary processes experienced by Zionism and the Yishuv (the Jewish community pre-1948) in Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century but at the same time one of the most profound and lasting among them. Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine addresses women's struggle to join defense and military activities during the period between the establishment of the Hashomer organization in 1909 and the outbreak of the War of Independence in late 1947. It describes the battles women fought as they sought to challenge the male assumption that members of the ""weaker sex"" should not be integrated into defense activities. Moreover, the book analyzes the explicit and self-conscious aspiration of women, especially in the Labor settlement movement, to actively participate in defending and guarding their settlements as part of their broader view of women having an equal right to share the burden of building the Jewish national home in Palestine." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Meir Chazan , Meir ChazanPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438490144ISBN 10: 1438490143 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 02 March 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Power, Heroism, Socialism, and Women during the Second Aliya Period 2. A Lost Battle: Women Volunteers for the Jewish Legion in 1918 3. The Women of Kibbutz Ein Harod as a Microcosm of the Women’s Struggles 4. Kibbutz Women and Guard Duty during the First Wave of the Arab Revolt in 1936 5. Gender, Defense, and the Public Status of Women, 1937–39 6. The Debate on Jewish Women’s Enlistment into the British Army during WWII 7. “There”—Heroes of the Holocaust, “Here”—Fighters in the Palmach Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""This ambitious volume could only have been pulled together by Chazan. Foremost an authority on Labor Zionism, from its moderates to its radicals, he has assembled resounding instances when major leaders had some bearing on whether women would be given weapons to guard agricultural settlements or be offered instruction for military services to the embryonic armies defending Palestine's Jewish community."" — Middle East Journal ""The role of women is an increasingly popular topic in Israeli history. Gender-related issues are a growing focus of Israel Studies and there is a real dearth of literature, especially in English. Uniquely well-informed and well written, Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine will be on many reading lists and should be in every university library."" — Ronald W. Zweig, New York University" The role of women is an increasingly popular topic in Israeli history. Gender-related issues are a growing focus of Israel Studies and there is a real dearth of literature, especially in English. Uniquely well-informed and well written, Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine will be on many reading lists and should be in every university library. - Ronald W. Zweig, New York University Author InformationMeir Chazan is Associate Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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