Israel's transition from community to state

Part 1: Nations, nationalism and state-building 1. Sacred territories and national conflict Anthony D. Smith 2. From within a to state David Vital 3. From civil society to sovereign state - the Israeli experience and the Palestinian quest Donna Robinson Divine Part 2: The making of the Yishuv 4. The Jews in Eretz-Israel/Palestine - from traditional peripherally to modern centrality Ruth Kark and Joseph B. Glass 5. The boundaries of mandatory Palestine - how the past influences the future Gideon Biger 6. Zionism and Jerusalem - the conflict of priorities - changes in Zionist settlement in the Jerusalem vicinity, 1937-48, Yossi Katz 7. Railways in Israel - the past and the future, Walter Rothschild 8. The Hebrew absorption of German literature I the Yishuv Na'ama Sheffi 9. The ideological and political background of the Israel defence forces Yaacov N. Goldstein Part 3: The struggle for independence 10. Jewish armed struggle in Palestine in the 1940s - its impact on British morale and public opinion Shaul Zadka 11. The other side of the coin - Arab propaganda and the battle against Zionism in London, 1937-48, Rory Miller 12. The Jewish and Arab lobbies in Canada and the UN partition of Palestine Eliezer Tauber