Foreword by Yoav Gelber
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The First Aliya: Defense and Guarding
The Heroic Phase
Protection by Baron Rothschild
The Transition to the JCA (1900)
2 The Second Aliya: Ideology and Organization
The Wellsprings of Bar Giora and Hashomer
The Founding of Bar Giora
Social and Cultural Background of the Founders
The Eighth Zionist Congress at The Hague
3 From Bar Giora to Hashomer
An Operational Base: From Sejera to Kefar Tabor
The Creation of Hashomer
Ideology, Structure and Institutions
Operational Methods Take Shape: 1908-1913
The Labor Legion
Internal Problems: blood feud (gum); agricultural Settlement;
leadership; cultural aspect
4 Hashomer and Yishuv
The Attitude of the Workers’ Parties
Hashomer, Institutions of the Yishuv, and the Zionist Movement
Other Guarding Organizations in the Yishuv
5 The Organization and Ideology of Hashomer
Organizational and Practical Aspects: threshold of change
(from August 1914 until the end of the year); decline (from
the end of 1914 until August 1916); the awakening (August
1916-September 1917); the brink of dissolution (September
1917-April 1919)
Ideological and Political Changes: underground-revolutionary
stage (September 1907-April 1909); the legal stage (April
1909-late 1914, early 1915); ideological revolution (early
1915-British conquest)
6 The Status of Women in Hashomer
The Second Aliya
Services and Welfare
7 The Attitude toward the Arabs
The Poaley Zion Party
Hashomer and the Arab Milieu
Daily Relations with the Arabs
The Test of Guarding
8 The Disbanding of Hashomer
The End of the War
Why was Hashomer Dissolved?: rural and urban defense; organization:
limited and selective, or popular and general?; authority
and sovereignty
9 From Unity to Dissolution, 1920-1927
The Mis-Step (12 June 1920-End of 1922): attitude to the security
issue; Ahdut Ha’avoda and the Histadrut; the alternative:
The Joseph Trumpeldor Labor Battalion
The Intolerable dualism (June 1920-End of 1923): the founding
of Hakibbutz; gthe period of dualism; Activities of Hakibbutz:
separate frameworks
The Rift and the End (1923-1927)
10 The Hapoel Association, 1930-1935
Struggle between the Palestinian Labor Movement and Revisionism
for Hegemony over Zionism (1925-1933): the ideological-political
clash; struggle over Weizmann’s succession (1929-1931); labor
relations and violence
The Hagana: From Histadrut Control to National Control: the
1929 disturbances and split in the Hagana; transition from
Histradut control to national control
Special Concepts, Special Tools: David Ben-Gurion in 1928-1931:
struggle for the creation of The League for Labor Palestine;
tendency to convert Hapoel into a Palestinian Schutzbund;
integration of Hashomer people in Hapoel (1930-1934)
The Conflict Years (1931-1934): debate over the nature and
purpose of Hapoel; debate on violence in Mapai; establishment
of the Hasadran “Attendants” Association;
Swan-Song (1934-1935): “From Class to Nation” – Ben-Gurion’s
change in attitude to the Zionist Organization and the struggle
against Revisionism; Why did Hashomer people resign from Hapoel
institutions?; Epilogue: the Hapoel Companies (1936)
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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