Pioneers and Homemakers, livre ebook

This book deals with the experience and action of Jewish women in the new Jewish settlement in Palestine (the Yishuv) during the period of Zionist immigration to Palestine, from the last two decades of the nineteenth century until 1948. The wide range of topics concern the experience of East European immigrant women as well as that of traditional Yemenite women, the creative and radical action of the socialist pioneers of the labor movement as well as the liberal feminism of the middle-class women. Though based on scholarly research, this book brings forth women's voices through their private and public writing.

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Part I. Between Tradition and Change

1. Through the Eyes of a Settler's Wife: Letters from the Moshava
Ran Aaronsohn

2. Literature by Women of the First Aliyah: The Aspiration for Women's Renaissance in Eretz Israel
Yaffa Berlovitz

3. Yemenite Jewish Women—Between Tradition and Change
Nitza Druyan

Part II. Women of the Labor Movement

4. Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the Winding Road to Sejera
Shulamit Reinharz

5. The Women's Farm at Kinneret, 1911–1917: A Solution to the Problem of the Working Woman in the Second Aliyah
Margalit Shilo

6. Fragments of Life: From the Diaries of Two Young Women
Deborah S. Bernstein and Musia Lipman

7. A Woman Alone: The Artist Ira Jan as Writer in Eretz Yisrael
Nurit Govrin

8. The Women Workers' Movement: First Wave Feminism in Pre-State Israel
Dafna N. Izraeli

9. From Revolution to Motherhood: The Case of Women in the Kibbutz, 1910–1948
Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui

10. Human Being or Housewife: The Status of Women in the Jewish Working Class Family in Palestine of the 1920s and 1930s
Deborah S. Bernstein

Part III. Women's Rights, Women's Spheres

11. On the Way to Equality? The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in the Jewish Yishuv, 1917–1926
Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui

12. The Fringes of the Margin: Women's Organizations in the Civic Sector of the Yishuv
Hanna Herzog

Contributors

Index