Free Download Becoming Hebrew: The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine by Arieh Bruce Saposnik
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0195331214 | 328 Pages | PDF | 11.7 MB
"If the Jews wish to become a nation of ‘Jewish Culture,’" Eliezer Ben-Yehuda wrote in 1904, "they must first become truly a nation." Throughout the subsequent decade, Ben-Yehuda and other Zionist activists in Palestine attempted to transform the small, divided, economically depressed, and demographically declining Yishuv – the pre-state Jewish community – into the foundation of a modern nation. In this book, Arieh Bruce Saposnik tells the story of this transformation.
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