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Excerpt from The Struggle for the Hebrew Language in Palestine The events of the past three months (november, 1913 - Janu ary, 1914) have precipitated the Jewish people into a conflict over the Hebrew language. On the one side in this struggle is Palestine, the new Pales tine, active, energetic, confident of its future. Its live city popu lation is on this side, the whole of its educated class, the laborers and settlers in all the Jewish colonies, the school-teachers, sober minded men of experience who have devoted their lives to the revival of Hebrew, and their pupils, young people eager to live a Jewish life in the spirit of their models. It is the Side that is upheld by the Zionist organization, which stands Solid on this issue, ready for any sacrifice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Struggle for the Hebrew Language in Palestine The events of the past three months (November, 1913 - January, 1914) have precipitated the Jewish people into a conflict over the Hebrew language. On the one side in this struggle is Palestine, the new Palestine, active, energetic, confident of its future. Its live city population is on this side, the whole of its educated class, the laborers and settlers in all the Jewish colonies, the school-teachers, sober-minded men of experience who have devoted their lives to the revival of Hebrew, and their pupils, young people eager to live a Jewish life in the spirit of their models. It is the side that is upheld by the Zionist organization, which stands solid on this issue, ready for any sacrifice. On the other side are the leading personages in the Hilfsverein of the German Jews. Dr. Paul Nathan, head of the Hilfsverein, is mainly responsible for the policy of that body. He placed himself in opposition to the clearly expressed will of the people of Palestine, and in a pamphlet of his entitled "Palestine and Palestinian Zionism," he bitterly attacked the Zionist movement and its responsible representatives. To us this great struggle signifies more than a mere polemical controversy with Dr. Nathan. The best way, in our opinion, to defend ourselves is to show objectively what the revival of the Hebrew language in Palestine signifies for the whole of Judaism and Jewry, what role it plays in the development of education in Palestine, and how the conflict over the school system has arisen. The best answer is the truth. The struggle over the Hebrew language has assumed a particularly acute character in Germany. There the opponents of Zionism have united into an anti-Zionist alliance, which finds no methods too base to use in fighting Zionism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This title brings together vivid first-hand descriptions with primary sources, offering readers a comprehensive portrayal of the on-the-ground realities and providing a new framework for understanding the seemingly unending Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Too often, the study of Israel/Palestine has focused on elite actors and major events. Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel takes advantage of new sources about everyday life and the texture of changes on the ground to put more than two dozen human faces on the past and present of the region. With contributions from a leading cast of scholars across disciplines, the stories here are drawn from a variety of sources, from stories passed down through generations to family archives, interviews, and published memoirs. As these personal narratives are transformed into social biographies, they explore how the protagonists were embedded in but also empowered by their social and historical contexts. This wide-ranging and accessible volume brings a human dimension to a conflict-ridden history, emphasizing human agency, introducing marginal voices alongside more well-known ones, defying "typical" definitions of Israelis and Palestinians, and, ultimately, redefining how we understand both "struggle" and "survival" in a troubled region.