Pioneers and Homemakers
Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel

Edited by Deborah S. Bernstein

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This is a very interesting book. It was published in 1992 by State University of New York Press. The soft cover book measures 5 7/8 inches by 9 inches and contains xii, 312 pages. The cover is securely attached. The cover shows minor signs of wear. The introduction contains notes in the margins and some underlined passages. The remainder of the book appears to have no markings. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is near very good.


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Title Page - Verso

Contents:

    Illustrations
    Preface
    Introduction

    Part I. Between Tradition and Change

  1. Through the Eyes of a Settler’s Wife: Letters from the Moshava
    Ran Aaronsohn
  2. Literature by Women of the First Aliayh:
    The Aspiration for Women’s Renaissance in Eretz Israel
    Yaffa Berlovitz
  3. Yemenite Jewish Women
    Between Tradition and Change
    Nitza Druyan

    Part II. Women of the Labor Movement

  4. Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the Winding Road to Serja
    Shulamit Reinharz
  5. The Women’s Farm at Kinnert, 1911-1917:
    A Solution to the Problem of the Working Woman in the Second Aliyah
    Margalit Shilo
  6. Fragments of Life:
    From the Diaries of Two Young Women
    Deborah S. Bernstein and Musia Lipman
  7. A woman Alone:
    The Artist Ira Jan as Writer in Eretz Yisrael
    Nurit Govrin
  8. The Women Workers’ Movement:
    First Wave Feminism in Pre-State Israel
    Dafna N. Izraeli
  9. From Revolution to Motherhood:
    The Case of Women in the Kibbutz, 1910-1948
    Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui
  10. Human Being or Housewife:
    The Status of Women in the Jewish Working Class Family
    in Palestine of the 1920s and 1930s
    Deborah S. Bernstein
  11. Part III. Women’s Rights, Women’s Spheres

  12. On the Way to Equality?
    The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in the Jewish Yishuv, 1917-1926
    Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui
  13. The Fringes of the Margin:
    Women’s Organizations in the Civic Sector of the Yishuv
    Hanna Herzog
  14. Contributors
    Index


Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat (Central Zionist Archive).


Young women in Migdal (Labor Archive).

Excerpt - Introduction:
A new chapter of Jewish history began in Palestine in the late nineteenth century. A new wave of Jewish settlement was underway, initiated by the Zionist Movement, a political and social movement for the establishment of a national home for the Jews in Palestine – Eretz Israel. Modern political Zionism developed during this time in Europe. The World Zionist Movement, and its leading organization, the World Zionist Organization, established in 1897, served as umbrella structures incorporating a variety of social and political ideologies of which the rebuilding of Zion as Jewish homeland was the binding element. Immigration continued through the turn of the century and the first half of the twentieth century, primarily from Eastern Europe and to much lesser extent from Moslem countries. It led to the establishment of numerous new settlements, urban and rural, new social movements and organizations and eventually to the consolidation of a semiautonomous Jewish entity known as the New Yishuv, or simply the Yishuv (meaning in Hebrew – The Settlement)…
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Children’s day care, Tel Aviv, run by the Organization of Working Mothers (Labor Archive).

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