- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Plates
- Note on Transliteration
- Prologue
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Chapter One Hadassah, 1912–1933: Finding a Role -
Chapter Two Hadassah, 1933–1947: Responding to Crisis -
Chapter Three The Leadership -
Chapter Four The Jewish Foundations -
Chapter Five The American Foundations -
Chapter Six Ideology and Politics at the Establishment of the State of Israel, 1948–1950 -
Chapter Seven Ideology and Politics in the Early Years of the State of Israel, 1951–1956 -
Chapter Eight Hadassah in the War of Independence, 1947–1949 -
Chapter Nine A Young State with Many Needs -
Chapter Ten Welfare and Education Projects for Children and Teenagers -
Chapter Eleven Projects for Immigrant Children and Teenagers -
Chapter Twelve Comparative and Feminist Perspectives -
Chapter Thirteen Hadassah’s Partners - Epilogue
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Appendix A Hadassah Membership Relative to the Jewish Community in the United States, 1917–1957 (Selected Years) -
Appendix B Articles of the 1947 Constitution Relating to Definition of Objectives -
Appendix C Articles of the 1956 Constitution Relating to Definition of Objectives -
Appendix D A Selection of the Pamphlets Recommended to Members by the Hadassah Education Department, 1951 - Bibliography
- Plate Acknowledgements
- Index
- Plates
Ideology and Politics in the Early Years of the State of Israel, 1951–1956
Ideology and Politics in the Early Years of the State of Israel, 1951–1956
- Chapter:
- (p.137) Chapter Seven Ideology and Politics in the Early Years of the State of Israel, 1951–1956
- Source:
- Hadassah
- Author(s):
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter details further developments within the international Jewish community as well as Hadassah's role in these affairs. Despite Hadassah's unrelenting focus on practical work, it could not ignore the questions about the essence of Zionism that arose as a result of the establishment of the State of Israel. In the context of debates over aliyah and ḥalutsiyut, the question arose whether Hadassah was a Zionist organization or an organization of ‘friends of Israel’; the leaders of Hadassah firmly refused to ‘demote’ the organization to the level of ‘friends of Israel’. Another focus of debate between the Zionists in Israel and American Zionists was the concepts of ‘exile’ and ‘diaspora’. In this respect Hadassah, more than the other Zionist organizations in the United States, supported the view that can be defined as affirming the value and authenticity of Jewish life in the diaspora.
Keywords: Jewish diaspora, Israel, American Zionists, Israeli Zionists, Zionist organizations, friends of Israel, aliyah, ḥalutsiyut, exile
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Plates
- Note on Transliteration
- Prologue
-
Chapter One Hadassah, 1912–1933: Finding a Role -
Chapter Two Hadassah, 1933–1947: Responding to Crisis -
Chapter Three The Leadership -
Chapter Four The Jewish Foundations -
Chapter Five The American Foundations -
Chapter Six Ideology and Politics at the Establishment of the State of Israel, 1948–1950 -
Chapter Seven Ideology and Politics in the Early Years of the State of Israel, 1951–1956 -
Chapter Eight Hadassah in the War of Independence, 1947–1949 -
Chapter Nine A Young State with Many Needs -
Chapter Ten Welfare and Education Projects for Children and Teenagers -
Chapter Eleven Projects for Immigrant Children and Teenagers -
Chapter Twelve Comparative and Feminist Perspectives -
Chapter Thirteen Hadassah’s Partners - Epilogue
-
Appendix A Hadassah Membership Relative to the Jewish Community in the United States, 1917–1957 (Selected Years) -
Appendix B Articles of the 1947 Constitution Relating to Definition of Objectives -
Appendix C Articles of the 1956 Constitution Relating to Definition of Objectives -
Appendix D A Selection of the Pamphlets Recommended to Members by the Hadassah Education Department, 1951 - Bibliography
- Plate Acknowledgements
- Index
- Plates