Box Folder D-1 1944 Hillel Israel Summer Seminar Reader, 1984
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
MS-831: Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation Records, 1980 – 2008. Series E: Mandel Foundation Israel, 1984 – 1999. Box Folder D-1 1944 Hillel Israel Summer Seminar Reader, 1984. For more information on this collection, please see the finding aid on the American Jewish Archives website. 3101 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 513.487.3000 AmericanJewishArchives.org 27305ll : i1D'7~ ' QI) j : 21/10/04 12:46·•H : 1'1N11 I I 4sl>o: ,"Tm ni' :"'i' ' a•u·;,;il ,.,.,:, ,,m n i' I nl'IU l'l1W 'n11W J 1 - 1310438 - 1 : O'i''~ 12 : j?'!' 482102027028 :i1J'11 6S3692SS i1V'1'f 6 : :-t:ll) 438 : .,,1,1;,1:i MIG ARCHIVES BY TYPE 8~ : 0'\11!:i / 1 : 'f)) ,,1n1:i : r.i 111!:>o 4 71nn 428 -naJ 1111111111111111 lllll lllll 111111111111111111 a, ~~EL f ISRAEL SUMMER SEMINAR READER f .f'. I '· ) ,, t Ma ndel A rchives Project 'f 1944 ,I Summer, 1984 Table of Centents Map: "The Frontiers of the State of Israel 1949-1967" Map: "Israeli Conquests 1967" from Martin Gilbert, The Arab Israeli Conflict; lli History 1!1 Maps (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolsorr, 1979). • •••••• 1 Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State from Arthur Hertzberg, The Zionist~( NewYork:Atheneum, 1959). • •••••• 2 Vladimir Jabotinsky, "Evidence Submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission (1937)" from ibid. • •••••• 4 Map: "Jewish Settlement in Palestine 1880-1914" from Gilbert~, Conflict. • •••••• 6 Ahad Ha-am, "The Law of the Heart ( 1894) '' from Hertzberg, State. •••••••7 "The Beginnin~s of Tel Aviv" from Avraham, Yaari, ~ Goodly Heritage (Jerus4 lem: World Zionist Organization, 1958). • ••••• 410 Map: "The Canaanite, Jebusite and Israelite Periods (-586 BCE)" Map: "The Second Temple Period (538. BCE-70 CE)" from Dan Baha~ Carta's Historical Atlas of Jerusalem ( Jerusalem: Carta, 1973) ••••••• 13 Drawing of Solomonic Jerusalem by Lloyd K. Townsend from Dora Jane Hamblin, " Bearing Witness to City of David I s Life and Ueath" in Smithsonian, July 1982. • •••••• 14 Drawing of Temple Mount, 70 C.E. • •••••• 15 Biblical SelP-ctions on Jerus~lem from~ Prophets (Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Societ:,, 1978) and The Writings (Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society, 1982). II Samuel 5:6-9, II Samuel 25 :18-24, I Kings 5:16-19, II Kings 18;9-10, 17, II Chronicles J2:2-4. Selections on Herodian JerusRlem from Josephus, ~ Jewish ~. trans. G.A. Wi lliamson ( Great Penguin: Penguin Books, 1972). • •••••• 16 Lamentations 4:1-15, from ~he Writings • .. The Horrors of the Siege" from War. •o•••••l7 Map: "JerusA. lem in the 1860s" from Martin Gilbert, Jerusalem, Illustrated History Atlas (Tel Aviv: Steimatzky). Drawin~ of ''Montefiore's Windmill, Mishkenot Shaananim and Yemin Moshe'from David Kroyanker, Jerusalem Architecture (Jerusqlem: The Domino Press, 198J). • •••••• 1e "By-Laws of Mishkenot Shaananim" ••••••• 19 "Progress in °erus<ilem" from Laurence Oliphant, Haifa or Life in the Holy Land (repr.: Jerusalem: Canaan Publishing Irou~ ~7'5T:" - - ••••••• 20 From Charles W. Wilson, Jerusalem. The Holy City (repr.:Jerusalem1 Ariel Publishing House ,. • ••••••• 21 11 M Map: ''Jerusa lem: The Divided City. 1949-1967 from Illustrated H At1as. If I FromJohn Phillips. A filll 1,Q, Survive (New York: The Dial Press, 1977). ········2J From~ Seventh Day. Soldiers Talk About the fil:.!. Day War (Great Britian1 Penguin Books.1970). ••••••••25 Map o f the Negev. Schema tic drawing of the cirques from Har Hane~ev(Tel Aviv: Society for Protection of Nature in Israel, p979 a n d Har Henegev Hatzfoni (Tel Aviv: Society for rotection of Nature in Israel, 1979). • ••••••• 26 From David Ben Gurion. Recollections. • ••••••• 27 Drawing of Masada 73 C.E. •·••••••34 Ba sic Principles ~f The Torah by Maimonides from Isadore Twersky.! Maimonides Reader (New York: Behrman House. 1972. ••••·•••35 Speech attributed to Eliezer ben Yair from~~ ••••••••36 Johanan ben Zakkai's Escape f rom Jerusa l em f r om Judah Goldin, trans. The Fa thers Accord ing to Rabbi Nathan (New Hav en : iale University Press, 1967). - ••••••••37 From J acob Neusner, First Century J udai s m i n Cris is ( New York: Abingdon Pres R, 1975)0 ••••••••38 Map: "The Ara b nefugees 1949-1967" from Gilbert. Conflict. •••·•••o39 "From Petach Tikva to Da gania" from Herita ge. ••••••••40 The Innocents Abroad by Ma rk Twa in from Yl~al Allon, My Father's House {New York: W.W. Norton Company. 1976). ••••••••45 Map: ttThe Syrian Front a t the Cease Fire af 24 October 1973" Map; "The Israel-Syrla Disengagement Agreement 31 May 1974" from Gilbert. Conflict. ••••·•••47 "One NiE';ht 1"efore the War" from Seventh .Ua.y. ••••••••48 From Self Portrait of a Hero: The Letters of JoW)l.than Netan.yahu ( New York: Ballantine-Books.1980). - •·••••••49 From R.J. Zwi Werblowsky. Joseph Karo: Lawyer and Mystic ( Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Seciety. 1977). ••••••••51 "Testimony ef a Journalist and Educator from the Village Jatt" from Every Sixth Isra eli, ed. AlGuph Hareven (Jerusa lem: Van Leer Foundation, 1983).· •• ·••• .• 54 Map: "Crusader Acre" frem Meren Benvenisti. The Crusaders in the Holy Land ( Jerus~lem: Israel Universities Press. 1976). "The King in Acre May 1250-March 1251" from Chronicles of the Crusades. to1nv1lle and Villehard0u1n, trans. M.R.B. Shaw (Great Br1t1an: en~uin Books, 1980). •••••••58 Drawings and Plans ••••••• 6) THE FRONTIERS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL () 1949-1967 eSusa Following the Arab decision to invade Israel in May 1948, the Israelis not only defended the land allocated to them by the United Nations, but extended the area under their control. • Kuneitra The frontiers established in 1949 remained the de facto borders until 1967, but during these eighteen years none of Israel's Arab SYRIA neighbours agreed to make peace with her, or to recognize the permanent existence of her borders [~ I~ Mediterranear. TRANSJORDAN DAN Sea Ammao• I r-f I JORDAN 766 Israeli soldiers were killed during the 'Six Day War'. The number of Arab dead was never announced E G Y p T [ZJ The territory of the State of Israel as proposed by the United Nations in No~ember 1947, but rejected by the Arabs ~ Territory beyond the United Nat,ons line conquered by Israel, 1948 • 1949 - · - The frontiers of the State of lsr11el according to the Armistice agreements SAUDI ARABIA of 1949, signed between Israel and Egypt (24 January), Israel and the Lebanon ( 23 March), Israel and Trans1ordan (3 April) and Israel and Syria ( 20 July). Trans1ordan had already occupied all Arab held land west of the Jordan, formally annexing 11 ,n1950, and renarn,ng the whole area ·Jordan' - .. ~ -- - --......... •'-M l --·••->· .t '""" \.J.VJIIL\:U world uf today has suflfricnt power to ddcnd itsdf. No human being is wealthy or powerful enough to transplant a people from one place of residence to another.~ Only an idea can achieve that. The State idea surely has that power. The Jews have dreamed this princely dream throughout the long night of their history. HERZL: The fewish State 221 "Next year in Jerusalem" is our age-old motto. It is now a matter of showing that the vague dream can be trnnsfom1ed into a clear and interests of departing Jews, and will organize trade and commerce in glowing idea. the new country. For this, our minds must first be thoroughly cleansed of many old, \\'e must not visu:ilizc the exodus of the Jews as a sudden one. It outworn, muddled, and shortsighted notions. The unthinking might, will be gradual, proceeding over a period of decades. The poorest will for example, imagine that this exodus would have to take its way go first and cultivate the soil. They will construct roads, bridges, rail from civilization into the desert. That is not so! It will be carried ways, and telegraph installations, regulate rivers, and provide them out entirely in the framework of civilization. We shall not revert to a seh·cs with homesteads, all according to predetermined plans. Theit lower stage; we shall rise to a higher one. \Ve shall not dwell in mud lnbor will create trade, trade will create markets, and markets will huts; we shall build new, more beautiful, and more modem houses, attract new settlers-for every man will go voluntarily, at his own and possess them in safety. We shall not lose our acquired possessions; expense and his own risk. TI1e labor invested in tl1e soil will enhance we shall realize them. We shall surrender our well-earned rights for its value. The Jews will soon perceive that a new and permanent better ones. \Ve shall relinquish none of our cherished customs; we frontier has been opened up for that spirit of e_nterprise which has shall find them again. We shall not leave our old home until tl>e new heretofore brought them only hatred and obloquy. one is available. Those only will depart who are sure thereby to im The founding of a State today is not to be accomplished in the prove their lot; those who are now desperate will go first, after them manner that a thousand years ago would have been the only possible the poor, next the well to do, and last of all the wealthy. Those who go one. It is silly to revert to older levels of civilization, as many first will raise themselves to a higher grade, on a level with that whose Zionists propose. Supposing, for example, we were obliged to clear a representatives will shortly follow. The exodus will thus at the same country of wild beasts, we should not set about it in the fashion of the time be an ascent in class. fifth-century Europeans. \Ve should not take spear and lance and go The departure of the Jews will leave no wake of economic dis- out individually in pursuit of bears; we would organize a grand and I glorious hunting party, drive the animals together, and throw a meli N I nite bomb into their midst.