Land and Desire in Early Zionism

Index

Abramson, Pesya, 64 Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 44 Aharonovich, Yosef, 40–41, 49, 62, 66, 113, 131, 149; and caring for plants, 58; and conquest of labor, 89; and conquest of land, 80; and consolidation, 148; and Exile, 77; and gypsyness, 170; and Hebrew language, 150, 157, 172; and sublimity, 60 Ahdut HaAvodah, 15–16; first convention (1919), 161–62 Aliya, First, 1, 9, 18, 102, 151, 201n14; and Arab Question, 87 Aliya, Second, 3–4, 7–12, 63, 81, 102, 112, 163, 174; and Bialik’s poetry, 119; and Hebrew language, 153, 158; labor and defense, 94; and pioneer depictions of sex, 30–31 Aliya, Third, 3, 7, 10, 12–16, 81, 102, 112, 175 aliyot: consolidating (1924–1951), 6; formative (1882–1923), 6; use of term, 81 Almog, Oz, 25 Alroey, Gur, 7, 18, 112, 176; and Second Aliya studies, 174 Anglo-Palestine Bank, 9 animals, intimacy with, 58–59 Apter, Shmuel, 110 Arab desire for the land, 86-88 Arabic, 150, 154, 159 Arab laborers, 104(fig) Arab Question, 86–88, 138 Aran, Gideon, 17 Arlosoroff, Haim, 42, 49, 63, 78, 119–20, 148; and Hebrew language, 171; and parasites, 144–45; and sweat, 57 Asaf, Ami, 68 Ashkenazim, and Yemenites, 146 Association of Workers of the Galilee, 106, 109–11 Avigdorov, Gad, 43 Balfour, Arthur James, Lord, 12 Balfour Declaration, 12–13 Bank HaPoalim (Workers’ Bank), 16 Barak, General, 70 Bar Giora, 11, 103, 134 Bar-Kochba, 70 Barsky, Moshe, 43, 241n158; murder of, 106, 125 Bartal, Israel, 17–18 bathing, 55 beautiful death, 95 Beer Sheva, 14–15 being-in-the-Land-of-Israel, as pioneer experience, 50 Beit Alfa, 14 Beitania, 24 Ben-Amitai, Levi, 90, 161 Ben-Avram, Baruch, 7, 21; myth of Third Aliya, 175 Ben-Barak, A., 41, 62 Ben-Eliav, 95, 100 Ben-Ezer, Ehud, 176 Ben-Gurion, David, 4, 6, 17, 22, 33, 41–42, 47, 76; and Arabs, 84, 86; and calamity of muteness, 156; and conquest, 80; experience of the Land, 62–63; and Hebrew language, 154–55; and hoeing, 133; letters to his father, 64, 66–67, 107–8; and love of the Land, 53; and malaria, 139; and mythic time, 69; and myth of history of Zionist movement, 177; and Ottoman law, 99; and physical labor, 124, 127; as soldier, 134; and study of the Land, 98; and sweat, 57; and Tel Hai, 111; and weapons, 135; and World War I, 77; and Yemenite workers, 146 Ben Shemen, 10; and JNF, 9 Ben-Shemni, 57 Ben-Yehuda, Baruch, 139 Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, and Hebrew language, 151–52, 157, 236n9 Ben-Zion, Simcha, 132, 136 Ben-Zvi, Rachel, 82 243 Index 244 Index Ben-Zvi, S., 66 Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak, 12, 69–70, 76, 82, 94, 96, 103–4; and archeological excavations, 147; and signing of archeological artifacts, 99; as soldier, 134; and study of the Land, 98–99; and territorialism, 78; and Yiddish, 150; and Yiddishist faction, 154 Bergman, Shmuel Hugo, 171 Berkowitz, Ya‘akov, 42 Berman, Moshe, 102 Bernfeld, Siegfried, 14 Bezalel Academy of the Arts, 153 Biale, David, 32 Bialik, Hayim Nahman, 119–20 Bible. See names of individual books biological regeneration, 47 Bistritzky, Nathan, 71–72 Bitanya Ilit, 14 blood: as boundary creator, 99–111; and the Land, 56–57, 106 blood feuds, 108 Bluwstein, Rachel, 53, 70; and botanical expeditions, 98; and fauna, 58; and Hebrew language, 162; and hoes, 132; and malaria, 139; and open space, 63; and suffering, 137–38; and water, 55 Bluwstein, Shoshana, 130; and hoes, 132 body: of exilic Jew, 116–21; and territory, 74 body-of-the-Land-without-organs, 41, 85–93, 97, 100, 111–12, 116, 176; articulating, 137; and blood, 103 body-with-organs, creating: Hebrew, 156–61; individual, 125–26; national, 148–49. See also pioneer-body-with-organs body-without-organs, 89, 116, 118(fig), 119(fig), 125(fig), 140–41; use of term, 74. See also exilic-body-without-organs; exilic-Jewish-body-without-organs; Jewish-body-without-organs; national body-without-organs; pioneer-bodywithout -organs Bogen, Shoshana, 44, 127 Bolshevik revolution, 13 boundary-articulating impetus, 81 boundary-blurring impetus, and blood, 103 boundary-creating impetus: and blood, 103; of pioneer desire, 74–75, 99 boundary creators, 99–111 breast, maternal, as basis of relationships, 35–36 Brenner, Y. H., 2, 166; and Hebrew language, 172; as Hebrew teacher, 153, 159 British Army, and conquest of Galilee, 109–10 Buber, Martin, 14, 47–49; and writings of A. D. Gordon...