Author: Walter LehnPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780710300539
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Jewish National Fund
Author: Walter LehnPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780710300539
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Story of the Jewish National Fund
Author: Moshe LevinHarvest in the Wilderness
Author: Jewish National FundThe Battle for the Land
Author: Yosef KatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
In 1901, the Zionist Organization founded the Jewish National Fund to purchase lands in the Land of Israel and transfer them to the ownership of the Jewish people. The book before us examines and summarizes the JNFs land purchasing policies and endeavors, from the establishment of the Fund to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. A major part of this essay centers on the period from 1936 to 1948, which were the most important years of the JNFs activities and during which it became almost the sole Jewish entity promoting this aspect of the building of the land of Israel. During these years, the JNF purchased about 600,000 dunams, which constitute more than 60% of its acquisitions from its establishment to the establishment of the State. The pivotal nature of the JNF during those years stems first and foremost from the recognition of its settlement endeavors by the top institutions of the Zionist Organization, in promoting the political interests of the Zionist movement in the land of Israel. The creation of actual real property owned by the Jewish people which also served as a foundation for settlement was a prerequisite for achieving a Jewish state. Under its articles of association, the lands purchased by the JNF cannot be sold. They were leased for the purpose of establishing agricultural and urban settlements and subsequently, the State of Israel applied this principle to all its lands (about 20.5 million dunams), of which JNF lands now constitute about 13%.
Propaganda and Zionist Education
Author: Yoram Bar-GalPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580461382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A history of the Jewish National Fund and the ways it encouraged Jews around the world to buy land in Palestine in the years 1924-1947. The Jewish National Fund [JNF] is the executive body established by the Zionist movement in 1902 to buy land in Palestine for the Jewish people. Very quickly, however, it became an international organization and soon had branchesin many countries throughout the world. One of the tasks of these branches was to mediate between the central office in Jerusalem and the millions of Jews who donated money to buy land. The organization, which is still active throughout the Jewish world, concerned itself with "the marketing of ideology" the dissemination of symbols, knowledge and ideas to the masses of the Jewish people, and converted them into money and real estate property. In thememories of much of World Jewry the JNF is linked with memories of their childhoods and the forming of their identities. The memory was, in fact, fashioned by the Propaganda Department of the JNF which worked through the mass communications media in the Jewish world and made its presence massively felt in the Jewish education networks in many countries. Among the most remembered items are "the Blue Box", the flagship of the organization, and the stamps distributed to schools, which were miniature posters making political declarations. Up until today there has been virtually no research carried out on these aspects of Zionist propaganda which helped to fashion this collective memoryand left its mark upon Jewish culture in Israel and the Jewish Diaspora. Yoram Bar-Gal is Professor of Geography at Haifa University in Israel.
25 Years
Author: Jewish National FundPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Story of Hebrew
Author: Lewis GlinertPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183090
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most intense textual cultures ever known. Hebrew was a bridge to Greek and Arab science, and it unlocked the biblical sources for Jerome and the Reformation. Kabbalists and humanists sought philosophical truth in it, and Colonial Americans used it to shape their own Israelite political identity. Today, it is the first language of millions of Israelis. A major work of scholarship, The Story of Hebrew is an unforgettable account of what one language has meant and continues to mean.
Between Capital and Land
Author: Eric Engel TutenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135767017
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book provides a detailed examination of the Jewish National Fund's internal development and analyzes the relationship between Jewish National Fund finances and land purchase priorities during the Second World War.
The Awakening
Author: Ira Arthur HirschmannPublisher: Shengold Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
One Day and 90 Years
Author: Shlomo ShvaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This book is about the history of the Jewish National fund, from its inception at the 5th Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. the book is filled with photographs which show the vast achievements made in land reclamation, Reforestry, road building and building of infrastructures for settlement throughout israel. includes charts of important dates in jnf and israeli history. also available in french, spanish, russian and hebrew.