Abstract

The Hebrew University
Selekman, Ben M. | April 24, 1929 issue

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History has modeled the Jew almost wholly in the urban cast. Yet the exigencies of the post-war world, revolutionary Russia, hostile Poland, inhospitable America, are returning this city folk to the land-the hard soil of Palestine, the richer expanses of the Crimea. The Jewish pioneer, the Chalutz, takes up in Palestine all those tasks for which the long centuries between exile and return have ostensibly unfitted him. He brings to them not only the zest and spirit of an age-old ideal, not only the will to fashion a unified group life for his people, but the approach and method of that Western civilization which has been his home for all these years.

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CIVILIZATION; HISTORY; WAR; JEWISH pioneers; IMMIGRANTS; PIONEERS
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