{"product_id":"the-oldest-guard-forging-the-zionist-settler-past-hardback-9781503628496","title":"The Oldest Guard; Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Hardback) 9781503628496","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Oldest Guard\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eForging the Zionist Settler Past\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLiora R. Halperin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503628496\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 11 halftones, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In this extremely important work on Israeli national memory and periodization, Liora Halperin offers new ways to think about early Jewish settlement in Ottoman Palestine. Halperin's insightful reading of the first Aliyah colonies unpacks the complex relationship between Ashkenazim, Mizrahim, and Palestinians in the modern state of Israel: a state whose perceptions of its past were, and are, in a constant state of flux.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago \"\u003ci\u003eThe Oldest Guard\u003c\/i\u003e casts new light on not only Israeli history but also key issues in the history of nationalism and colonialism, such as tensions between local and statist identifications, concepts of 'firstness' in national narratives, and settler-colonial memory.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Derek Penslar, Harvard University \"Halperin's book is a unique history of Zionist memory in that it does not limit its approach to actors from particular Zionist movements or institutions. The book while nominally focused on the 'First Aliyah' generation is about much more: Labor Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, Palestinian agriculturalists, Holocaust survivor and Mizrahi immigrants to the State of Israel after its establishment, and even the history of continued settlement up until today. The book will serve as a fantastic resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Jewish Studies and Middle East Studies.\"—Ryan Zohar, \u003ci\u003eAssociation of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \"Through descriptions of Purim parades, local museums, and the life of Avraham Shapira, an iconic figure in the First Aliya, Halperin does a brilliant job keeping the reader connected throughout... [\u003ci\u003eThe Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Path\u003ci\u003e] provides a nuanced image of how perceptions of historical figures shift and transform over time as new generations gain power in shaping the narrative.\"—Louis A. Fishman, \u003ci\u003eIsrael Studies Review\u003ci\u003e \"It is this public image [of 'the First Aliya']—and its contradictions—which is the subject of Liora Halperin's excellent book, on the Zionist settler memory culture.\"—Yair Wallach, \u003ci\u003eQuest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oldest Guard\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (\u003ci\u003emoshavot\u003c\/i\u003e) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. Though they grew into the backbone of lucrative citrus and wine industries of mandate Palestine and Israel, absorbed tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants, and became known as the \"first wave\" (First Aliyah) of Zionist settlement, these communities have been regarded—and disregarded—in the history of Zionism as sites of conservatism, lack of ideology, and resistance to Labor Zionist politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTreating the \"First Aliyah\" as a symbol created and deployed only in retrospect, Liora R. Halperin offers a richly textured portrait of commemorative practices between the 1920s and the 1960s. Drawing connections to memory practices in other settler societies, \u003ci\u003eThe Oldest Guard\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how private agriculturalists and their advocates in the Zionist center and on the right celebrated and forged the \"First Aliyah\" past, revealing the centrality of settlement to Zionist collective memory and the politics of Zionist settler \"firstness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e0. Introduction: Mother of the Colonies\u003cbr\u003e  1. Private Farmers and the Origins of \"\u003cbr\u003eFirst Aliyah\"\u003cbr\u003e Claims-Making\u003cbr\u003e  2. Arab Labor and the Rhetoric of Hierarchical Coexistence in Mandate Palestine\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Old Guard on Display\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Colony and the Village: Constructions of Coexistence after the Nakba\u003cbr\u003e  5. Jewish Immigrants and the Politics of Settler \"\u003cbr\u003eFirst Ones,\"\u003cbr\u003e 1948–1967\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Thinking about the First Aliyah after 1967\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610634907928,"sku":"9781503628496","price":72.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-oldest-guard-forging-the-zionist-settler-past-hardback-9781503628496","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}