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PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK IN 1950 TO HONOUR THE NEWBORN STATE OF ISRAEL: 31 ESSAYS, MEMOIRS, STORIES AND POEMS ON JERUSALEM AND THE LAND, BY THE LEADING HEBREW WRITERS OF AMERICA
A TRIBUTE FROM JERUSALEM\'S SONS ABROAD
Two years after Israel declared independence, the society of Jerusalem-born Jews living in America turned its yearbook into a single volume dedicated to the new state. Its editor, born in Jerusalem himself, gathered eyewitness memoirs, historical studies and poetry about the Land of Israel, much of it on the old Jewish community of Jerusalem that the writers had known first-hand.
WHAT\'S INSIDE
EYEWITNESS MEMOIRS
• Professor A. S. Yahuda tells how, when war broke out in 1914, he used his personal acquaintance with Enver Pasha and his access to Britain\'s foreign secretary Lord Grey to shield the Jews of Palestine, including the order to the navy not to shell the Hebrew Gymnasium and the Technion
• \"Herzl in Jerusalem\" by Itamar Ben-Avi, son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, recalling the Zionist leader\'s 1898 visit
• \"My Grandfather Rabbi Zalman\", a family portrait by M. Ivensky
• \"To Tour the Land\", travel impressions by the novelist Reuben Wallenrod
JERUSALEM AND THE OLD JEWISH COMMUNITY
• The Jews of Jerusalem at the ceremony welcoming Kaiser Wilhelm II
• The life of Rabbi Yoel Moshe Salomon, Jerusalem printer and a founder of Petah Tikva, in a 25-page study
• Shimon Berman, the forgotten pioneer who preached farming settlement in the 1870s
• The history of the Perushim, the disciples of the Vilna Gaon who rebuilt Ashkenazi life in the Holy Land
• The flowering and decline of the Sephardic libraries of Jerusalem, by Meir Benayahu
• A historic public appeal calling the Jews of Yemen to come up to the Land of Israel
• The daily newspapers of Eretz Israel
THE BIRTH OF THE STATE
• \"On the Road to the Israel Defense Forces\"
• \"The Defence of the Old City of Jerusalem\", on the 1948 battle
• \"The Old Yishuv and the State of Israel\", by Dr. Pinkhos Churgin, later founder of Bar-Ilan University
• \"The Future of Zionism in America\"
• American Zionists in the Uganda controversy
THOUGHT AND SCHOLARSHIP
• The Land of Israel in the teaching of Rabbi Kook, by Dr. Meyer Waxman
• The Land of Israel in the Bible and the Talmud
• \"The Land of Israel and Its Conquerors\", by A. S. Halkin
• \"Memory and Forgetting in Jewish History\", by Dr. S. Bernstein
• \"Two That Are One\", by Menachem Ribalow, editor of Hadoar
• Abandoned property in Jewish and Roman law, by Professor Boaz Cohen
POETRY AND STORIES
• Poems by Israel Efros (\"Jerusalem\"), Hillel Bavli (\"They Shall Rise\"), Ephraim Lisitzky (\"To My Brothers in Zion\"), Simon Halkin, Gabriel Preil (\"To the One Land\"), Aaron Zeitlin and A. S. Schwartz (\"Saturday Night in Jerusalem\")
• \"Passover in the Land of Israel\", a story by the historian Zeev Yavetz
AT A GLANCE
Title: Yisrael: Kovetz Sifruti-Mada\'i Mukdash li-Medinat Yisrael (Israel: A Literary and Scholarly Collection Dedicated to the State of Israel)
Series: Yearbook of the Histadrut Bnei Eretz Yisrael in America
Editor: A. R. Malachi
Publisher: Shulsinger Brothers, New York
Year: 1950 (5710)
Pages: 232
Language: Hebrew
Binding: Original cloth hardcover
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Eliezer Raphael Malachi (1895–1980) was born in Jerusalem and came to the United States at the age of 17. He became the most productive Hebrew bibliographer of his time, writing thousands of articles on the Hebrew press, Hebrew literature and the history of the old Jewish community of the Land of Israel. His papers are preserved at the Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem.
CONDITION
• Binding: solid, with light soiling to the cloth
• Pages: clean and complete
• An old handwritten note identifying the book is taped inside the front cover
Please see the photos, which form part of the description.
WHO IT\'S FOR
Collectors of early State of Israel material, American Hebraica, Jerusalem history and Zionism, and researchers of the old Yishuv.
KEYWORDS
Judaica, Israel 1950, State of Israel, early Israel, Yisrael, Hebrew yearbook, Sefer ha-Shanah, Histadrut Bnei Eretz Yisrael, A. R. Malachi, Eliezer Raphael Malachi, Jerusalem, Old Yishuv, Old City, Zionism, Herzl, Itamar Ben-Avi, A. S. Yahuda, Rav Kook, Meyer Waxman, Meir Benayahu, Pinkhos Churgin, Yoel Moshe Salomon, Petah Tikva, Perushim, Vilna Gaon, Hillel Bavli, Gabriel Preil, Lisitzky, Aaron Zeitlin, Kaiser Wilhelm, Yemenite Jews, Uganda, IDF, 1948, American Hebraica, Hebrew literature, Shulsinger, New York
