Foundations of Israel; emergence of a welfare state

Title
  1. Foundations of Israel; emergence of a welfare state / Oscar I. Janowsky.
Published by
  1. Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand 1959.
Author
  1. Janowsky, Oscar I. (Oscar Isaiah), 1900-1993.

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Description
  1. 192 pages : illustrations, map; 19 cm.
Series statement
  1. An Anvil books ; no. 41
Uniform title
  1. Van Nostrand anvil books ; no. 41.
Subject
  1. Staatsvorming
  2. Israel > History > Sources
  3. Israel
  4. Eretz Israel > History > 1882-1947
Genre/Form
  1. History.
  2. Sources.
Contents
  1. Origins: Jews and Palestine before world war I -- The balfour declaration and the Palestine mandate -- Palestine and world war II -- Building the Jewish national home -- Distinctive features of the Jewish national home -- From national home to sovereign state -- State and government -- Political development -- Population problems -- Welfare-state ideals -- Economic realities -- International relations -- The Basle program, august 1897 -- The balfour declaration, November 2, 1917 -- The mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922 -- The joint congressional resolution on the Jewish national home, June 30, 1922 -- British statement of policy on Palestine, may 17,1939 -- Observations of the permanent mandates commission on the policy laid down in the white paper of may, 1939 -- Palestine land transfers regulations, February 28, 1940 -- Immigration statistics -- Immigration of Jews into Palestine, 1882-1948 -- Annual immigration into Israel, May 15, 1948-1957 -- Population statistic -- Growth of Jewish population in Palestine, 1882-1948 -- Population of Israel, 1948-1957 -- Economic growth -- Growth of Jewish industry and handicrafts, 1925-1943 -- Comparative data on middle eastern countries -- The ideal of Halutzuit or dedicated pioneering -- Sources of Jewish social idealism -- Revival of Hebrew as a living language -- The meaning of Aliya -- Aaron David Gordon and the idealization of labor -- Preliminary report to the president on displaced persons in Germany and Austria (the Harrison report), August, 1945 -- Letter from president Truman to prime minister Attlee, August 31, 1945 -- Concurrent congressional resolution, December, 1945 -- Recommendations of the Anglo-American committee of inquiry on Palestine, April 20, 1946 -- United nations general assembly resolution on the partition of Palestine, November 29, 1947: resolution 181(II) -- The flight of the Arabs -- The proclamation of independence, may 14, 1948 -- The national elections -- Composition of governments or cabinets by parties -- Growth of collective and cooperative agricultural settlements, 1946-1956 -- Balance of trade, 1949-1956 -- Tripartite (France, the united kingdom, and the united states) declaration of may 25, 1950 -- Israel's blueprint for peace.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189) and index.