The Sabra: The Creation of the New Jew

by Oz Almog and Haim Watzman

Book Overview

The Sabras were the first Israelis-the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in Palestine. Socialized and educated in the ethos of the Zionist labor movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav, they turned the dream of their pioneer forebears into the reality of the new State of Israel. While the Sabras made up a small minority of the new society's population, their cultural influence was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520216423
• ISBN13: 9780520216426
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"