Youth and Nation : A monthly for Jewish Youth. Volume XVI, Number 5. March 1948

Verlag: Hashomer Hatzair Organization, 305 Broadway, New York, New York, 1948

Beschreibung

In English with 2 pages of Hebrew. 34 pages. 252 x 174 mm. Illustrated. Hashomer Hatzair (=The Young Guard) is a Socialist-Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in Europe. It was also the name of the group's political party in Eretz Israel when the area was controlled by the British as the "Mandate of Palestine." It is the oldest Zionist youth movement still in existence. Initially Marxist-Zionist, the movement was influenced by the ideas of Ber Borochov, Gustav Wyneken, Baden-Powell, and the German Wandervogel movement. Hashomer Hatzair believed that the liberation of Jewish youth could be accomplished by immigration to Eretz Israel and living in kibbutzim. After the Word War One the movement spread to Jewish communities throughout the world as a scouting movement. Members of the movement settled in Mandatory Palestine as early as in 1919. In 1927, the four kibbutzim founded by Hashomer Hatzair banded together to form the Kibbutz Artzi federation. The movement also formed a political party that shared the name Hashomer Hartzair, advocating a binational solution in mandatory Palestine with Arabs and Jews living in harmony under one roof. The only problem was, and is, that the Arabs would only accept Jews, at best, as Dahimis, a minority with second class status. When a small group of Zionist leaders met in New York in May 1942 in the Biltmore Hotel, Hashomer Hatzair representatives voted against the Biltmore Program. To their credit members of Hashomer Hatza'ir fought the Nazis in WWII, and after the war, were involved in organizing immigration of Jewish refugees to Eretz Israel, were involved in the Haganah (which, sadly, at times helped the British occupiers pursue other Jewish groups that wanted to kick out the British imperialists), and in the Palmach. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 015476

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Youth and Nation : A monthly for Jewish ...

Verlag: Hashomer Hatzair Organization, 305 Broadway, New York, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1948

Einband: Paper Wrappers

Zustand: Very Good