Contents

 

Introduction	Efraim Karsh
NATIONS, NATIONALISM AND STATE-BUILDING
Sacred Territories and National Conflict	Anthony D. Smith
From ‘State within a State’ to State	David Vital
From Civil Society to Sovereign State: The Israeli Experience and the Palestinian Quest	Donna Robinson Divine
THE MAKING OF THE YISHUV
The Jews in Eretz-Israel/Palestine: From Traditional Peripherality to Modern Centrality	Ruth Kark and Joseph B. Glass
The Boundaries of Mandatory Palestine: How the Past Influences the Future	Gideon Biger
Zionism and Jerusalem – the Conflict of Priorities: Changes in Zionist Settlement in the Jerusalem Vicinity, 1937–48	Yossi Katz
Railways in Israel: The Past and the Future	Walter Rothschild
The Hebrew Absorption of German Literature in the Yishuv	Na'ama Sheffi
The Ideological and Political Background of the Israel Defence Forces	Yaacov N. Goldstein
THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
Jewish Armed Struggle in Palestine in the 1940s: Its Impact on British Morale and Public Opinion	Shaul Zadka
The Other Side of the Coin: Arab Propaganda and the Battle against Zionism in London, 1937–48	Rory Miller
The Jewish and Arab Lobbies in Canada and the UN Partition of Palestine	Eliezer Tauber
Abstracts
Index