‘The Chosen People’ and the ‘House of Many Mansions’: managing deep divisions in the Yishuv and Lebanon during the Mandate Period by Kheir, Z

“…</p> <p>The key argument here is that during the mandate period, the community which would become the core of the Israeli state (known as the Yishuv) was able to develop a dominant vision of the state that guided post-independence policy and deactivated potentially destabilizing deep divisions. …”

La gravitación cubana de la estrella de David by Luis Edel Abreu Veranes, Claudia Pérez Castro

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Surnames of Jewish People in the Land of Israel from the Sixteenth Century to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Alexander Beider

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Excerpt from <i>Judah L. Magnes: An American Jewish Nonconformist</i> by Daniel P. Kotzin

“…In the face of pressure from leaders of the Yishuv for a Jewish state, Magnes championed democracy, humanistic values, and Jewish–Arab binationalism.…”
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Pertahanan Israel:Awal Buramnya Masa Depan Perdamaian di Timur Tengah by Abdul Rahman

“…From the Jewish villages or Yishuv, the forming of semi Defense Forces already done. …”
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The Jewish Paramilitary Organizations in Palestine before the Creation of the State of Israel in 1948 by А. Krylov

“…By the time of the creation of Israel all the Jewish paramilitary organizations operating in Yishuv – “Haganah”, “Irgun” and LEHI – united creating the IDF. …”
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Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality by Yair Wallach

“…The tourism and hospitality industry, which relied on flows of people across borders and on a diverse customer-base, was to some degree at odds with the segregation associated with Zionist Yishuv. Such stories, which have been forgotten and erased by the history of Palestine in the twentieth century, prompt us to rethink our understanding of Ashkenazi history in the region. …”
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“Our Hopes Are Not Lost Yet.” The Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy: Relief, Rehabilitation and Self-understanding (1943-1948) by Chiara Renzo

“…The article discusses the approaches and ambitions of the rescuers (military authorities, UN agencies and representatives from the Yishuv) and the desires of the Jewish DPs themselves, who played an active role both in the administration of the refugee camps as well as in the political discourse regarding their resettlement in British Palestine. …”
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The Jewish farmer, the village and the world fair: politics, propaganda, and the “Israel in Palestine” pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937 by Fainholtz Tzafrir

“…At the Paris International Exhibition of 1937, a few steps from the Nazi Germany and USSR pavilions the Yishuv (Palestine's Jewish Zionist community) had its own presence, the “Israel in Palestine” pavilion. …”
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Le choc de la création de l’État by Yigal Schwartz

“…In this article, I will discuss the responses apparent in much Israeli fiction to the following phenomena: the traumatic passage from the “Yishuv society” to a state; the difficulty of coping simultaneously with renewed nationalism (which had already been dealt with in Europe) on the one hand and with modernism and postmodernism on the other; the unresolved struggle between the narrative of redemption and the narrative of the Diaspora and the complicated passage from a “melting pot” society to a multicultural one. …”
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Ballet and the Renegotiation of Identity among Jewish Orthodox Women in Israel by Janice L. Ross

“…Just as the laboring body of the secular folk dancer of the Yishuv has stood for socialism, egalitarianism, and muscular Judaism while relegating the religious body to the sidelines, it is possible now to read an image of the return of the religious, via the feminized body of classical ballet, as emblematic of the new Jewish woman of Orthodox communities. …”
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Foreign Means to Local Ends: Bialik, Emerson, and the Uses of America in 1920s Palestine by Nir Evron

“…<p>In 1926, Haim Nachman Bialik, the premier poet and leading intellectual light of the Zionist movement, sailed for New York on a five-month-long fundraising mission on behalf of the <em>yishuv</em>, the pre-statehood Jewish settlement in Palestine. …”
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Families and the Social Infrastructure of War: From Palestine to North Africa and Back Again, 1942–1944 by David Motzafi-Haller

“…The analysis points to the Muchniks’ adoption of a coherent family strategy, one that attempted to harness the extensive wartime profits that flowed to the Zionist Yishuv during this period to attain lasting upward mobility for the family. …”
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Between Yerushalayim DeLita and Jerusalem—The Memorial Inscription from the <i>Bimah</i> of the Great Synagogue of Vilna by Jon Seligman

“…Historical analysis identifies the involvement of the Vilna community with the support of the <i>Yishuv</i> (the Jewish community in Ottoman Palestine) and the <i>aliyah</i> of senior scholars and community leaders at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries. …”
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El desafío a los Juegos Olímpicos de Berlín 1936: Barcelona, la Olimpiada Popular olvidada y los atletas judíos de Palestina by Raanan Rein

“…Fue esta la primera expresión de solidaridad desde el Yishuv judío con la República española y su lucha por la supervivencia.…”
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