Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora Nancy L. Green, ed. University of California Press, 1998, 256 pp., $14.95 Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York by Nancy L. Green Duke University Press, 1997 …
In a well-known comment on Napoleon III, Karl Marx wrote that historical figures and events do indeed repeat themselves—“the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” This witticism seems particularly apt here in Jerusalem, where we are now …
Disbelief, incredulity, amazement—it is with such emotions that Israelis have responded to the fast flow of political developments since the announcement in September of the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). On the so-called left, where …
On Friday, June 26, immediately following the elections, one of Israel’s leading papers chose as the banner headline on its weekend magazine, “The Rabin Era!” And it may well be that we shall eventually come to rank 1992, together with …
It is now more than three years since I sent a report from Israel to Dissent. That article was composed under the impact of the intifada, then (late January 1988) still in its earliest stages. As a historian, I suffer …
On Wednesday, January 20, the Peace Now movement held a meeting to protest the Israeli government’s handling of the Arab uprising on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. It was a wet, cold Jerusalem night, and the mood …
At this moment, the “Government of National Unity” has been in office here in Jerusalem for almost a year and a half. It almost came apart in April, and whether it will still be in existence by the time this …
A heated public debate in Israel, lasting from May 1980 until the outbreak of the Lebanese War in June 1982, followed Yehoshafat Harkabi’s attack on Shimon Bar Kochba, the second-century leader of the anti-Roman revolt in Judea, 132-35 C.E. (of …
The electoral victory of Menachem Begin in June 1981 (however marginal in voting terms) apparently opened a new era in the history of the state of Israel. In the first Likud government, which came to office in 1977, Begin was …
