Meir Chazan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5898176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meir Chazan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meir |
| FAMILY NAME | Chazan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAZAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Fourth Aliyah and the Fulfilment of Zionism in the Land of Israel
Aliya from ‘affluent countries’ and David Ben-Gurion’s descent from the political scene
In May–June 1969, David Ben-Gurion set out on his last trip abroad. Ben-Gurion, eighty-two years old, was aware of his situation and knew what the ravages of time had done to his ability to function. Still, he felt physically fit enough for one last effort. Thus, he spent five weeks visiting Jewish communities on three continents – his longest stay outside Israel since the country had been founded. The worldview that undergirded the journey and l…
The duality of legacies
Degania and Tel Hai were woven together as microcosms of the aspirations, failures, wishes, and yearnings for Jewish resurrection and independence in Palestine. I investigate the ways in which the connections, tensions, and residues that linked and separated Degania and Tel Hai were gradually braided into one – including their reflections and symbolizations in the realia of the Yishuv generally and in its socialist sector particularly. By contemp…
Israel Goes to the Polls
The Constituent Assembly elections on 25 January 1949 were a crucial step—governmentally, politically, and symbolically—in the transformation of Israel into a democracy in the spirit of the November 1947 UN partition plan resolution. The election campaign, conducted amid the battles of the War of Independence, focused on where the newly founded state should be heading, that is, whether the military conquests should continue or should be wound up.…
“The Wise Woman of Givat Brenner”
The struggle of kibbutz women to participate in guard duties during the Arab Revolt, 1936–1939
While problems of women's military service in Israel today are attracting increasing scholarly attention, there is little systematic discussion of the events and processes that laid the foundation for the present situation. This article discusses this topic as it emerged in the kibbutz movement during the Arab Revolt of 1936–39 in Palestine. The attempts of women to participate in guarding activities during the British Mandate reveal changes in t…
The 1943 ‘Reconstruction Plan’ for Mandatory Palestine
In 1943, the British Colonial Office initiated a far-reaching process of arrangements to prepare plans for detailed reconstruction in the territories subject to British control. Reconstruction as a concept, a tendency and an action plan was basically directed at building and constructing that which had been destroyed in the war, based on a plan thought out in advance. This article explores the struggle between the British plan for the reconstruct…
Mapai and the Arab-Jewish Conflict, 1936-1939
The article deals with the attitudes toward the Arabs in the Labor movement and especially in Mapai during the Arab revolt. The article argues that the ongoing war conditions compounded by an exacerbating and increasingly played up tendency to dehumanize and delegitimize Arabs in Palestine between 1936 and 1939. From a historical perspective the main influence of those years lays in the mental and psychological impact they had on perceptions in M…
Force, Commemoration, and Morality in the Worldview of Manya Shohat and Yosef Aharonovitch
Mania Shohat and Yosef Aharonovitch represented opposing attitudes within the Zionist Labour Movement to the use of force in the struggle for a Jewish homeland, and the related issue of who was worthy of commemoration among the Zionist pioneers. Their personalities, outlooks, and lifestyles reflected attitudes to the use of force and to the way of commemorating the Zionist enterprise that led them sometimes to converge and sometimes to collide. T…
The dispute between Aharonovitch and Arlosoroff over the Zionist stance on the ‘Arab question’
The Murder of Moshe Barsky
‘This Jew is the greatest political Zionist after Herzl’. These were the words with which Chaim Weizmann honoured Naphtali Hertz Barsky during a public Zionist meeting organized by the French Zionist Federation in Paris in March 1914. While Weizmann appears never to have mentioned Barsky again in his letters, speeches or in his autobiography, his words made a considerable and memorable impact. How did Hertz Barsky earn such great praise? It was a…
The Efforts to Revive Hashomer
The Hashomer organization, established in April 1909 and officially disbanded in May 1920, had undertaken to guard Jewish settlements throughout Palestine. The former members of Hashomer were not easily reconciled to exclusion from the inner circle where decisions were made concerning the defence of Jews in Palestine and made repeated efforts from 1920 to 1938 to reclaim what they perceived as their destiny as individuals and pioneers within the …
A Fighting Press
The children's press during Israel's War of Independence sheds light on the way the home front dealt with a prolonged war in which there was no clear distinction between front and rear. The article surveys five newspapers, representing the gamut of political and ideological views in Israeli society at the time. Viewing themselves as nurturing the new generation of Hebrew readers in terms of loyalty toward homeland and the Zionist vision, these ne…
The Patria affair
1This article examines the fierce controversy generated by the Patria affair, which was a crucial juncture in the history of the illegal immigration to Palestine. Jewish life in Palestine constituted the purpose of the Zionist dream and the precondition for its realization. The possibility of bringing Jews to Palestine was severely curtailed by the stringent restrictions on Jewish immigration in the White Paper published by the British government…
Mapai and the Arab-Jewish Conflict, 1936-1939
The article deals with the attitudes toward the Arabs in the Labor movement and especially in Mapai during the Arab revolt. The article argues that the ongoing war conditions compounded by an exacerbating and increasingly played up tendency to dehumanize and delegitimize Arabs in Palestine between 1936 and 1939. From a historical perspective the main influence of those years lays in the mental and psychological impact they had on perceptions in M…
The Efforts to Revive Hashomer
The Hashomer organization, established in April 1909 and officially disbanded in May 1920, had undertaken to guard Jewish settlements throughout Palestine. The former members of Hashomer were not easily reconciled to exclusion from the inner circle where decisions were made concerning the defence of Jews in Palestine and made repeated efforts from 1920 to 1938 to reclaim what they perceived as their destiny as individuals and pioneers within the …
The Patria affair
1This article examines the fierce controversy generated by the Patria affair, which was a crucial juncture in the history of the illegal immigration to Palestine. Jewish life in Palestine constituted the purpose of the Zionist dream and the precondition for its realization. The possibility of bringing Jews to Palestine was severely curtailed by the stringent restrictions on Jewish immigration in the White Paper published by the British government…
The Efforts to Revive Hashomer
The Hashomer organization, established in April 1909 and officially disbanded in May 1920, had undertaken to guard Jewish settlements throughout Palestine. The former members of Hashomer were not easily reconciled to exclusion from the inner circle where decisions were made concerning the defence of Jews in Palestine and made repeated efforts from 1920 to 1938 to reclaim what they perceived as their destiny as individuals and pioneers within the …
A Fighting Press
The children's press during Israel's War of Independence sheds light on the way the home front dealt with a prolonged war in which there was no clear distinction between front and rear. The article surveys five newspapers, representing the gamut of political and ideological views in Israeli society at the time. Viewing themselves as nurturing the new generation of Hebrew readers in terms of loyalty toward homeland and the Zionist vision, these ne…
The Murder of Moshe Barsky
‘This Jew is the greatest political Zionist after Herzl’. These were the words with which Chaim Weizmann honoured Naphtali Hertz Barsky during a public Zionist meeting organized by the French Zionist Federation in Paris in March 1914. While Weizmann appears never to have mentioned Barsky again in his letters, speeches or in his autobiography, his words made a considerable and memorable impact. How did Hertz Barsky earn such great praise? It was a…
The dispute between Aharonovitch and Arlosoroff over the Zionist stance on the ‘Arab question’
Force, Commemoration, and Morality in the Worldview of Manya Shohat and Yosef Aharonovitch
Mania Shohat and Yosef Aharonovitch represented opposing attitudes within the Zionist Labour Movement to the use of force in the struggle for a Jewish homeland, and the related issue of who was worthy of commemoration among the Zionist pioneers. Their personalities, outlooks, and lifestyles reflected attitudes to the use of force and to the way of commemorating the Zionist enterprise that led them sometimes to converge and sometimes to collide. T…
Mapai and the Arab-Jewish Conflict, 1936-1939
The article deals with the attitudes toward the Arabs in the Labor movement and especially in Mapai during the Arab revolt. The article argues that the ongoing war conditions compounded by an exacerbating and increasingly played up tendency to dehumanize and delegitimize Arabs in Palestine between 1936 and 1939. From a historical perspective the main influence of those years lays in the mental and psychological impact they had on perceptions in M…
The 1943 ‘Reconstruction Plan’ for Mandatory Palestine
In 1943, the British Colonial Office initiated a far-reaching process of arrangements to prepare plans for detailed reconstruction in the territories subject to British control. Reconstruction as a concept, a tendency and an action plan was basically directed at building and constructing that which had been destroyed in the war, based on a plan thought out in advance. This article explores the struggle between the British plan for the reconstruct…
The struggle of kibbutz women to participate in guard duties during the Arab Revolt, 1936–1939
While problems of women's military service in Israel today are attracting increasing scholarly attention, there is little systematic discussion of the events and processes that laid the foundation for the present situation. This article discusses this topic as it emerged in the kibbutz movement during the Arab Revolt of 1936–39 in Palestine. The attempts of women to participate in guarding activities during the British Mandate reveal changes in t…
“The Wise Woman of Givat Brenner”
Israel Goes to the Polls
The Constituent Assembly elections on 25 January 1949 were a crucial step—governmentally, politically, and symbolically—in the transformation of Israel into a democracy in the spirit of the November 1947 UN partition plan resolution. The election campaign, conducted amid the battles of the War of Independence, focused on where the newly founded state should be heading, that is, whether the military conquests should continue or should be wound up.…
Aliya from ‘affluent countries’ and David Ben-Gurion’s descent from the political scene
In May–June 1969, David Ben-Gurion set out on his last trip abroad. Ben-Gurion, eighty-two years old, was aware of his situation and knew what the ravages of time had done to his ability to function. Still, he felt physically fit enough for one last effort. Thus, he spent five weeks visiting Jewish communities on three continents – his longest stay outside Israel since the country had been founded. The worldview that undergirded the journey and l…
The duality of legacies
Degania and Tel Hai were woven together as microcosms of the aspirations, failures, wishes, and yearnings for Jewish resurrection and independence in Palestine. I investigate the ways in which the connections, tensions, and residues that linked and separated Degania and Tel Hai were gradually braided into one – including their reflections and symbolizations in the realia of the Yishuv generally and in its socialist sector particularly. By contemp…
The Fourth Aliyah and the Fulfilment of Zionism in the Land of Israel
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · History (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Judaism (8 works) · Politics (7 works)