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The Land of Israel Symbolizes a Union Between the Most Modern Civilization and a Most Antique Culture. It Is the Place Where
The Land of Israel symbolizes a union between the most modern civilization and a most antique culture. It is the place where intellect and vision, matter and spirit meet. Erich Mendelsohn The Weizmann Institute of Science is one of Research by Institute scientists has led to the develop- the world’s leading multidisciplinary basic research ment and production of Israel’s first ethical (original) drug; institutions in the natural and exact sciences. The the solving of three-dimensional structures of a number of Institute’s five faculties – Mathematics and Computer biological molecules, including one that plays a key role in Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biology Alzheimer’s disease; inventions in the field of optics that – are home to 2,600 scientists, graduate students, have become the basis of virtual head displays for pilots researchers and administrative staff. and surgeons; the discovery and identification of genes that are involved in various diseases; advanced techniques The Daniel Sieff Research Institute, as the Weizmann for transplanting tissues; and the creation of a nanobiologi- Institute was originally called, was founded in 1934 by cal computer that may, in the future, be able to act directly Israel and Rebecca Sieff of the U.K., in memory of their inside the body to identify disease and eliminate it. son. The driving force behind its establishment was the Institute’s first president, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, a Today, the Institute is a leading force in advancing sci- noted chemist who headed the Zionist movement for ence education in all parts of society. Programs offered years and later became the first president of Israel. -
“Mordechai Is Riding a Horse”: Political Performances
Chapter 5 “Mordechai is Riding a Horse”: Political Performances Political-Cultural Performance These next two chapters will analyze the cultural performances of bib- lical figures in the carnival. The term “cultural performance” refers to non-verbal expressions, via the body, objects, and sounds, which include rites, rituals, songs, dances, theatre, and other expressions in one analytical category. For the anthropologist Milton Singer, who coined the term, the analysis of processes of cultural transformation through cultural performance seemed somewhat corrective of inter- pretive manipulations by cultural agents. In this sense they are unlike mere “high” ideological texts, and hence more observable.1 Victor Turner further developed the term as a general approach to the study of culture, but unlike Singer, Turner emphasized the liminality of cul- tural performance, in which common social rules are suspended in favor of an enhanced reflectivity, which enables (though does not necessitate) for the social system a degree of self-criticism.2 Thus, the analysis of cultural performance and its transformations over time can reveal, or extract, implicit ideological motifs. In this chapter, I will explore symbolic and mythical dimensions of Zionist power, which proved crucial in the creation of the Zionist sphere of civil society and identity construction. In accordance with Alexander, “power” is understood here as “also a medium of commu- nication, not simply a goal of interested action or a means of coercion. It has a symbolic code, not only a material base.”3 The very symbolic 1 See: Singer 1972: 64–65, 71. 2 See: Turner 1987: 21–32. According to Kertzer (1988: 9), this reflexivity is the core definition of the ritual. -
UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UCLA UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Early Zionist-Kurdish Contacts and the Pursuit of Cooperation: the Antecedents of an Alliance, 1931-1951 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ds1052b Author Abramson, Scott Publication Date 2019 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Early Zionist-Kurdish Contacts and the Pursuit of Cooperation: the Antecedents of an Alliance, 1931-1951 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures by Scott Abramson 2019 © Copyright by Scott Abramson 2019 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Early Zionist-Kurdish Contacts and the Pursuit of Cooperation: the Antecedents of an Alliance, 1931-1951 by Scott Abramson Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California, Los Angeles Professor Lev Hakak, Co-Chair Professor Steven Spiegel, Co-Chair This study traces the progress of the contacts between Zionists/Israelis and Kurds—two non-Arab regional minorities intent on self-government and encircled by opponents—in their earliest stage of development. From the early 1930s to the early 1950s, the Political Department of the Jewish Agency (later, the Israeli Foreign Ministry) and several eminent Kurdish leaders maintained contact with a view to cooperation. The strategic calculus behind a Zionist/Israeli-Kurdish partnership was the same that directed Zionist/Israeli relations with all regional minorities: If demographic differences from the region’s Sunni Arab majority had made ii them outliers and political differences with them had made them outcasts, the Zionists/Israelis and the Kurds, together with their common circumstance as minorities, had a common enemy (Arab nationalists) against whom they could make common cause. -
Hanukkah and Purim: Similar Yet Different
Mon 7, 14, 21, 28 Nov 2016 / 6, 13, 20, 27 Heshvan 5777 B”H Dr Maurice M. Mizrahi Course for Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia Hanukkah and Purim: Similar yet Different Introduction -Hanukkah and Purim, the next two holidays, are not in Torah: Both are rabbinic. -Torah only has Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the three pilgrimage festivals – Pessah, Shavuot and Sukkot. -Both colorful – stay in mind of kids. -Both celebrate Jewish victory over persecution. -Both miraculous: We recite Al HaNissim on both. -Both so important rabbis turned their observance into post-Torah (rabbinic) commandments. YET: -The story of Purim has a book in the Bible (Esther), a tractate in the Talmud (Megillah) and a volume in the Midrash (Esther Rabbah). Hanukkah has none of them. It rates only a few mentions in Talmud [Shabbat 21a-24a], as an appendage to a discussion of what wicks and oils one can use for Shabbat lights. -The Book of Esther does not mention God, yet is in the Bible; the Books of Maccabees do, yet are not in the Bible. -The story of Purim is not known outside the Bible, yet is in the Bible. The events of Hanukkah are known outside the Bible, yet are not in the Bible. -Hallel (psalms of praise for God) recited on Hanukkah, but not Purim. -Hanukkah began with the physical (armed rebellion) and ended with the spiritual (rededication of the Temple). Purim began with the spiritual (prayer and fasting) and ended with the physical (armed resistance to killers). -On Purim, persecutors wanted to kill ALL the Jews. -
Forms, Ideals, and Methods. Bauhaus Transfers to Mandatory Palestine
Ronny Schüler Forms, Ideals, and Methods. Bauhaus Transfers to Mandatory Palestine Introduction A “Bauhaus style” would be a setback to academic stagnation, into a state of inertia hostile to life, the combatting of which the Bauhaus was once founded. May the Bauhaus be saved from this death. Walter Gropius, 1930 The construction activities of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine represents a prominent paradigm for the spread of European avant-garde architecture. In the 1930s, there is likely no comparable example for the interaction of a similar variety of influences in such a confined space. The reception of architectural modernism – referred to as “Neues Bauen” in Germany – occurred in the context of a broad cultural transfer process, which had already begun in the wake of the waves of immigration (“Aliyot”) from Eu- rope at the end of the nineteenth century and had a formative effect within the emancipating Jewish community in Palestine (“Yishuv”). Among the growing number of immigrants who turned their backs on Europe with the rise of fas- cism and National Socialism were renowned intellectuals, artists, and archi- tects. They brought the knowledge and experience they had acquired in their 1 On the transfer process of modernity European homelands. In the opposite direction too, young people left to gain using the example of the British Mandate of Palestine, see. Heinze-Greenberg 2011; 1 professional knowledge, which was beneficial in their homeland. Dogramaci 2019; Stabenow/Schüler 2019. Despite the fact that, in the case of Palestine, the broad transfer processes were fueled by a number of sources and therefore represent the plurality of European architectural modernism, the Bauhaus is assigned outstanding 2 importance. -
The Promise and Failure of the Zionist-Maronite Relationship, 1920-1948
The Promise and Failure of the Zionist-Maronite Relationship, 1920-1948 Master’s Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brandeis University Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Ilan Troen, Graduate Advisor In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Master’s Degree by Scott Abramson February 2012 Acknowledgements I cannot omit the expression of my deepest gratitude to my defense committee, the formidable triumvirate of Professors Troen, Makiya, and Salameh. To register my admiration for these scholars would be to court extravagance (and deplete a printer cartridge), so I shall have to limit myself to this brief tribute of heartfelt thanks. ii ABSTRACT The Promise and Failure of the Zionist-Maronite Relationship, 1920-1948 A thesis presented to the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts By Scott Abramson Much of the historiography on the intercourse between Palestinian Jews and Lebanese Maronites concerns only the two peoples’ relations in the seventies and eighties. This thesis, in contrast, attempts a departure from this scholarship, joining the handful of other works that chart the history of the Zionist-Maronite relationship in its earliest incarnation. From its inception to its abeyance beginning in 1948, this almost thirty-year relationship was marked by a search of a formal alliance. This thesis, by presenting a panoptical survey of early Zionist-Maronite relations, explores the many dimensions of this pursuit. It details the Zionists and Maronites’ numerous commonalities that made an alliance desirable and apparently possible; it profiles the specific elements among the Zionists and Maronites who sought an entente; it examines each of the measures the two peoples took to this end; and it analyzes why this protracted pursuit ultimately failed. -
Aaron, 239 Abraham, 241, 252, 257–258, 260 Adwan, Majed Pasha, 116 Affikim, 48 Agronsky (Agron), Gershon, 9, 11, 32 Aguddat Is
Index A disturbances of 1936, 167–170 Aaron, 239 Arab taxi driver, 157 Abraham, 241, 252, 257–258, 260 Arab woman, 159–160 Adwan, Majed Pasha, 116 articles Affikim, 48 Arab–Jews relations. see Arab–Jews Agronsky (Agron), Gershon, 9, 11, 32 relations Aguddat Israel, 237 British as the base of a triangle, 118–122 Alexander, Field Marshal, 253 call to young American Zionists to Ali, Ahmed, 180–181 immigrate to Palestine, 46–49 aliyah (immigration), 66, 104 celebration of Simchat Torah in 1933, to Mandatory Palestine, 66 77–80 to North America, 17 children from Germany as “Hitler’s gift to Palestine, 9–12, 17 to Palestine,” 80–82 Allenby Street, 21 connection between Western Jewry American Ha-Halutz movement, 48 and Palestine, 43–46 American Jewry, 34, 38–39, 43–46, 49 “divide and conquer” policy, 167 American settlement of Ein-Hashofet, 175 first communal Sabbath program in an anti-Semitism, 111–112, 114, 143–144, 149, 154 unnamed kibbutz, 202–205 Arab “Al Capones,” 169–170 first impressions of Tel Aviv, 20–24 Arab-Israeli conflict, 104–105 interaction with Jewish tourists from form of attacks, 105 Germany, 99–101 1930s, 106 Jew’s return to Palestine, 164–167 Yishuv pogroms, 105 Kahn’s travel to Poland, Romania, and Arab–Jews relations, 123–141 Turkey, 87–90 Arab–Jewish treaty of friendship, 112 letter to Elene on anti-Semitism, Bar-Adon’s central belief in the closeness 31–36 of Jews and Arabs, 144–149 life in Cyprus concentration camps, Bar-Adon’s reflection on the need for 194–197 understanding each other, meeting with Arnold Zweig, 82–84 -
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Early
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Early Zionist-Kurdish Contacts and the Pursuit of Cooperation: the Antecedents of an Alliance, 1931-1951 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures by Scott Abramson 2019 © Copyright by Scott Abramson 2019 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Early Zionist-Kurdish Contacts and the Pursuit of Cooperation: the Antecedents of an Alliance, 1931-1951 by Scott Abramson Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California, Los Angeles Professor Lev Hakak, Co-Chair Professor Steven Spiegel, Co-Chair This study traces the progress of the contacts between Zionists/Israelis and Kurds—two non-Arab regional minorities intent on self-government and encircled by opponents—in their earliest stage of development. From the early 1930s to the early 1950s, the Political Department of the Jewish Agency (later, the Israeli Foreign Ministry) and several eminent Kurdish leaders maintained contact with a view to cooperation. The strategic calculus behind a Zionist/Israeli-Kurdish partnership was the same that directed Zionist/Israeli relations with all regional minorities: If demographic differences from the region’s Sunni Arab majority had made ii them outliers and political differences with them had made them outcasts, the Zionists/Israelis and the Kurds, together with their common circumstance as minorities, had a common enemy (Arab nationalists) against whom they could make common cause. But in the period under consideration in this work, contact did not lead to cooperation, and none of the feelers, overtures, appeals for support, and proposals for cooperation that passed between the two sides throughout these two decades were crowned with success. -
Body and Ideology Jerusalem Ranked Third After Haifa and Jaffa in the Growth of Sports Clubs
Body and Prior to 1948, there were some 65 athletic clubs in Palestine; approximately 55 of them members of the Arab Palestine Sports Ideology Federation (APSF).1 Jerusalem and its Early Athletics in Palestine environs alone boasted some 18 clubs (half of these were established in the ‘40s). These (1900 - 1948) clubs had a tremendous impact on the lives of Palestinian young people (members were Issam Khalidi mostly, but not exclusively, male), shaping their character and preparing them for social and political involvement. Further, these athletics teams provided a social, national and institutional base for Palestine’s political organization in the first half of the twenty-first century. They developed alongside and in response to Jewish immigration and the Arab- Zionist confrontation. Athletic clubs were important in evoking the Palestinian national consciousness, sustaining connections between villages and cities, and developing ties with groups across the Middle East and parts of Africa. As such, this trend was contested by Zionist forces in Palestine in a struggle played out on the international stage Calisthenics in 1940s Palestine. Source: Before after the re-establishment of the defunct Their Diaspora APSF in 1944. [ 44 ] HISTORICAL FEATURES Body and Ideology Jerusalem ranked third after Haifa and Jaffa in the growth of sports clubs. Palestine’s first football team was organized in 1908 at Jerusalem’s St. George School. (Doctor Izzat Tannous, then a member of the Arab Higher Committee, was one of the players.) In 1909, this team defeated that of the American University in Beirut, then considered one of the best in the region. -
What's on in Tel Aviv /April
WHAT'S ON IN TEL AVIV / APRIL THINGSMONDAY TO DO FOR FREE: TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY OLD JAFFA TOUR GAMES FOR CHILDREN SARONA TOUR 1 2 3 Every Wednesday, 10AM Games and activities for children (ages Discover the history and heritage of Meeting point: Jaffa Clock Tower 3-6) Every Thursday, 4PM, Tel Aviv the restored colony INTERMEZZO SERIES SAHARA NIGHTS-2 ITALIAN JEWISH Admission: Based on tips City Hall. Admission: FREE Every Friday, 11AM of the Israel Philarmonic DESERT BLUES RENAISSANCE - Orchestra, 11AM JAFFA LOUNGE Meeting point: 34 Eliezer Kaplan. CONCERT EXHIBITION FROM OLD TEL AVIV TO THE Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky Barby Club Folk dancing, music & free spirit “WHITE CITY” TOUR Admission: FREE Mann Auditorium The Museum Of The Jewish Every Wednesday, 5:30PM Meeting WEST SIDE STORY People (Beit Hatfutsot) Every Saturday, 11AM, Meeting point: ELMGREEN & (English subtitles) >> EVERY DAY except point: Tourist Information Center Jaffa 46 Rothschild Blvd. Admission: FREE DRAGSET: Cameri Theatre for Sat. and Pesach Clock Tower. Admission: FREE Powerless Structures 2.4, 16.4, 23.4 - 9PM EXHIBITION >> Opening 1.4 Tel Aviv Museum of Art MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 MR VERTIGO FRESH PAINT FAIR REGA ECHAD FAMILY ACTIVITIES CRAIG DAVID - Paul Auster >> 5.4-9.4 CULTURAL EVENT AT THE HATACHANA CONCERT COMPOUND (Play with English subtitles), Tel Aviv Port and City Hall and Enav Center Hangar 11 Gesher Theatre, 8PM Levant Fair of Culture, 7.30PM >> EVERY SATURDAY Tel Aviv Port AUSTRIAN FILM WEEK IGOR BUTMAN ANTIQUE MARKET AT ETHNIC GOSPEL 8.30PM Tel Aviv Cinematheque JAZZ BAND DIZENGOFF Enav Center of Culture >> 2.4-10.4 HaYahalom Theatre, 8.30PM >> EVERY TUE. -
Tel Aviv University International Study Abroad - Fall Semester 2016
COURSE DESCRIPTION FALL 2016 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL STUDY ABROAD - FALL SEMESTER 2016 COURSE DESCRIPTION MAIN OFFICE UNITED STATES CANADA The Carter Building , Room 108 Office of Academic Affairs Lawrence Plaza Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Israel 39 Broadway, Suite 1510 3130 Bathurst Street, Suite 214 Phone: +972-3-6408118 New York, NY 10006 Toronto, Ontario M6A 2A1 Fax: +972-3-6409582 Phone: +1-212-742-9030 [email protected] [email protected] Fax: +1-212-742-9031 [email protected] INTERNATIONAL.TAU.AC.IL TABLE OF CONTENTS ■ FALL SEMESTER 2016 DATES 4-5 ■ ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS 6-12 ■ SCHEDULE OF COURSES 15-16 ■ TRANSCRIPT REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS 17 ■ COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 18-110 ■ REGISTRATION FORM FOR STUDY ABROAD COURSES 111 ■ EXTERNAL REGISTRATION FORM 112 FALL SEMESTER 2016 IMPORTANT DATES ■ The Fall Semester starts on Wednesday, October 26th 2016 and ends on Thursday, January 5th 2017 (inclusive). ■ Academic Orientation: Monday, August 29th 2016. ■ Course registration deadline: Friday, September 9 th 2016. ■ Class changes and finalizing schedule (see hereunder): Friday, November 4th 2016. ■ Last day in the dorms: Sunday, January 8th 2017. Students are advised to register to more than the required 5 courses but not more than 7 courses. Students will be allowed to delete courses from their schedules, (not add), on Friday, November 4th 2016. Fall Semester lasts 10 weeks, most courses will be given 4 hours per week, (two hours, twice a week), in most cases 3 credits each course. As a result, no early departures will be approved prior to Thursday, January 5th 2017. Early departures may in some case be approved for students whose Spring Semester in their school overlaps with the Tel Aviv University schedule. -
USHMM Finding
http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection British Colonial Office: Palestine, Original Correspondence, 1925-1948 (CO 733) RG-59.003M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 Email: [email protected] Descriptive Summary Title: British Colonial Office: Palestine, Original Correspondence (CO 733) Dates: 1925-1948 RG Number: RG-59.003M Accession Number: 2001.102 Extent: 200 microfilm reels; 35 mm. Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: English Administrative Information Access: No restriction on access. Reproduction and Use: No restrictions on use. Preferred Citation: [file name/number], [reel number], RG-59.003M, British Colonial Office: Palestine, Original Correspondence (CO 733), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC. Acquisition Information: Purchased from the British Public Record Office, National Archives (Great Britain), United Kingdom. Existence and location of originals: The original records are held by British Public Record Office, National Archives (Great Britain), Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, United Kingdom. Tel. 011 44 20 8876 3444. More information about this repository can be found at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm. 1 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection