Israel & Palestine, Human Geography, Sociology, Europe, Middle East, Social Sciences 

The Zionist Movement was born in the wake of Jewish emancipation in Western Europe, and at a time of increased persecution in Eastern Europe. This volume addresses the intellectual, social and political ramifications of Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel before the creation of the State of Israel. - from Amzon 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. NATIONS, NATIONALISM AND STTE BUILDING
Sacred Territories and National Conflict By Anthony D. Smith………………….p. 13
From ‘State Within a State’ to State By David Vital……………………………………p. 32
From Civil Society to Sovereign State: The Israel Experience and
The Palestinian Quest By Donna Robinson Divine……………………………………….p. 43
2. THE MAKING OF THE YISHUV
The Jews in Eretz-Israel/Palestine: From Traditional Peripherality to Modern Centrality By Ruth Kark and Joseph B. Glass………………………………………………….p. 73
The Boundaries of Mandatory Palestine: How the Past Influences
The Future By Gideon Biger…………………………………………………………………………p. 108
Zionism and Jerusalem- the Conflict of Priorities: Changes in Zionist Settlement in the Jerusalem Viciting, 1937-48 By Yossi Katz……………………………………………..p. 120
Railway in Israel: the Past and the Future By Walter Rothschild…………………..p. 144
The Hebrew Absorption of German Literature in the Yishuv
By Na’ama Sheffi…………………………………………………………………………………………p. 158
The Ideological and Political Background of the Israel Defence Forces By Yaacov N. Goldstein……………………………………………………………………………………………………...p. 172
3. THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
Jewish Armed Struggle in Palestine in the 1940s: Its Impact on British Morale and Public Opinion By Shaul Zadka……………………………………………………………………..p. 181
The Other Side of the Coin: Arab Propaganda and the Battle Against Zionism in London, 1937-48 By Rory miller…………………………………………………………………...p. 198
The Jewish and Arab Lobbies in Canada and the UN Partition of Palestine
by Eliezer Tauber………………………………………………………………………………………..p. 229