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By ., Deborah S. Bernstein

This e-book offers with the adventure and motion of Jewish ladies within the new Jewish cost in Palestine (the Yishuv) through the interval of Zionist immigration to Palestine, from the final 20 years of the 19th century till 1948. the wide variety of subject matters situation the adventure of East ecu immigrant ladies in addition to that of conventional Yemenite ladies, the artistic and radical motion of the socialist pioneers of the hard work circulation in addition to the liberal feminism of the middle-class girls. even though in keeping with scholarly study, this publication brings forth women’s voices via their deepest and public writing.

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Sachs, C. E. 1983. The Invisible FarmerWomen in Agricultural Production. Samsonov, Aryeh. 1942. Zikhron YaakovA Chronicle of its History, 18821942. Tel Aviv: Omanut (Hebrew). Smilansky, Moshe. 19431944. The Family of the Land. Vol. 1, 2. Tel Aviv: Am Oved (Hebrew). Women and Geography Study GroupIGB. 1984. Geography and Gender. London: Hutchinson. < previous page page_47 If you like this book, buy it! next page > < previous page page_49 next page > Page 49 2 Literature by Women of the First Aliyah: The Aspiration for Women's Renaissance in Eretz Israel Yaffa Berlovitz The Woman's Voice in the First Aliyah In any consideration of the literary works by the women of the First Aliyah (wave of immigration), we must, at the outset, try to clarify what women were like during that period.

1976. "The Problem < previous page page_21 If you like this book, buy it! next page > < previous page page_22 next page > Page 22 of Women's History," pp. 7592 in Liberating Women's History, edited by Berenice A. Carroll. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Habas, Bracha. 1947. The Second Aliyah Book. Tel Aviv: Am Oved (Hebrew). Hazelton, Leslie. 1977. Israeli Women: The Reality Behind the Myths. New York: Simon and Schuster. Herzog, Hanna. 1986. Political EthnicityThe Image and Reality. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad (Hebrew).

12. The third son of the author was usually called by his middle name, Betsalel. Perhaps he had another name, which began with the letter "S". Document B: Letter from the Wife of Kalman Kantor, Zikhron Yaakov, February 28, 1890 1 We've already forgotten all of the troubles and problems which I wrote about in my previous letter; because, thank God, our situation is improving as time goes by. We have already grown accustomed to our work and the conditions of life here, as if we grew up and were born here.

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