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dreams_libraryI would like a book, fictional or nonfictional, about Jewish settlers in Palestine during the time of the first and/or second Aliyah - so, from the beginning of Zionism in the 1880s until the start of the First World War.
I read "The Aaronsohn Saga", which is about what some of those settlers and their children *did* during the war, and found it fascinating, but I found the glimpses of what life was like in the early Jewish towns even more fascinating.
And there's a sci-fi story that's tickling at me, about colonization and identity and the land, but I know I need much better research first. Books about coming to a Jewish homeland in general would also be good- "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" is already on my list. But most of the books I've found about the modern history of Israel/Palestine has been after the Mandate; more about international politics, race, and 20th-century-style nationalism, and less about just coming together and making a new home in an old land, which is what I'd like to read.
I read "The Aaronsohn Saga", which is about what some of those settlers and their children *did* during the war, and found it fascinating, but I found the glimpses of what life was like in the early Jewish towns even more fascinating.
And there's a sci-fi story that's tickling at me, about colonization and identity and the land, but I know I need much better research first. Books about coming to a Jewish homeland in general would also be good- "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" is already on my list. But most of the books I've found about the modern history of Israel/Palestine has been after the Mandate; more about international politics, race, and 20th-century-style nationalism, and less about just coming together and making a new home in an old land, which is what I'd like to read.
