Work on the building, designed by the french architect m. Encyclopedia of jewish and israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from antisemitism to zionism. Amia lieblich, whose unique books addressing israeli communitieshave been of. Dec 01, 2000 kfar etzion has risen and died three times in the recent history of the judean hills. He has semicha from the rabbi isaac elchanan theological seminary and an ma in medieval jewish history from. We visited the kfar etzion museum for the second time. On one hand, it has been the ultimate consensus settlement.
The uses of memory made kfar etzion into a microcosm of the land of. From the journals and books published by yeshivat har etzion works of harav aharon lichtenstein, harav yehuda amital ztl, and more. The attack was a failure, and 200 of alhusaynis men died. The kfar etzion community of memory, end page 145 in a conscious, political fashion, exploited 1948 for the benefit of 1967 and the state of israel for the benefit of the land of israel. The case for israel is an ardent defense of israels rights, supported by indisputable evidence. List of killings and massacres in mandatory palestine.
Itamar residents respond to avi gabbay inside israel. View of the reconstructed kfar etzion courtesy of the kfar etzion archives. One of these settlements is kibbutz kfar etzion, where a museum chronicles the areas history and especially the bloody battles waged on gush etzion and its supply lines by the arab legion in 1948. B arubas born into a farming family in the moshav cooperative agricultural community of kfar azar, in central israel, yoram was the youngest. Before the kidnappings, there was the massacre at kfar etzion. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. But that doesnt mean that every world leader he painted deserves our admiration nor should we assume that syzk admired every one of them, either. Carducci, exgiosue carducci, built 1921, 114 gross tons, wood 2mast auxiliary barkentine. It is restricted to incidents in which at least three people were deliberately killed. It broke out after the general assembly of the united nations adopted a resolution on 29 november 1947 recommending the adoption of the partition plan for palestine. In 2011 he joined the staff of yeshivat har etzion and serves as a shana alef ram. The battle for gush etzion 1947 1948 jewish virtual library. Today kfar etzion houses a museum and archive documenting the history of gush.
Rav doniel schreiber yhe 86 has been a ram at yeshivat har etzion since 1994, and he is the founding dean of the yeshivat har etzion center for torah leadership. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the lonely tree. Today, gush etzion consists of seventeen communities and nearly 40,000 residents. Kfar etzion is an israeli settlement orgabnized as a religious kibbutz located in the judean hills. My friend chana porath idles and i had been invited to kfar etzion by chaim mageni, an american we knew who had decided to make his home in the fledgling kibbutz. He has also served as a ram at mekor chayim yeshiva high school in kibbutz kfar etzion. The construction sets off decades of israeli settlement building in the territory that most of the world considers illegal. From 20022009, he was a member of the kollel gavoha of yeshivat har etzion. In the 1950s, the idf history branch appointed maj. The kfar etzion community of memory, in a conscious, political fashion, exploited 1948. Sep 03, 2017 the land was restored to its jewish owners 90 years after the lands on which gush etzion the etzion bloc was built were first purchased, and 40 years after kibbutz kfar etzion was founded on the ruins of the kibbutz that was destroyed by arabs in 1948, who massacred the surrendering jews who held white flags. How the national trauma of kfar etzion helped bring israeli yeshiva boys to the west bank. In this context, two facts are especially poignant. But above all, it is a compelling love story between tonia the daughter of.
Remembering gush etzion reporting on the middle east. In the massacre of kfar etzion, the arabs murdered 127 men and women. This day in jewish history reestablishing a kibbutz. Gush etzion, land of nine lives the times of israel.
The third attempt was in 1943, when different affiliated groups established four settlements, the rebirth of kfar etzion. Holzman hence etzion, woods, it fell under illness and barrenness twice. Routtenberg kfar etzion, 1993, english book edited by sandy amichai. When palestine was only favored by crazy young people from europe. The books second part is devoted to the great drama of the kibbutzs resettlement. Now a major motion picture, this remarkable classic recounts, moment by moment, the spellbinding process that gave birth to the state of israel. Israeli historyfrom partition to independence wikibooks. There was only one intact family where there was a father, the knoll family and their daughter ora was in my class at the takhkemony mamlakhtyi dati school in bat yam. B arubas born into a farming family in the moshav cooperative agricultural community of kfar azar, in. In the israeli consciousness, kfar etzion has played a double role.
When former gush emunim leader and knesset member hanan porat initiated the return of the people of kfar etzion to their kibbutz, shortly after the sixday war, a few of the widows confronted him, claiming that, it is enough that the husbands died, there is. After two days, the illequipped and outnumbered settlers were overwhelmed. Its first commander was lieutenantcolonel frederick william bewsher. Documentary about the settlers shows them as israeli. The four kibbutzim communal settlements of gush etzion are associated. This is a list of killings and massacres committed in mandatory palestine. Take the story of kfar etzion, the first israeli settlement in the west bank, established 41 years ago this week.
The kfar etzion massacre refers to a massacre of jews that took place after a twoday battle in which jewish kibbutz residents and haganah militia defended kfar etzion from a combined force of the arab legion and local arab men on may, 1948, the day before the israeli declaration of independence. On 14 january, abd alqadir himself commanded and took part in an attack against kfar etzion, in which 1,000 palestinian arab combatants were involved. The death and rebirth of kfar etzion haaretz israel. The kfar etzion massacre refers to the massacre of kibbutz kfar etzion members and soldiers, on may, 1948, to the arab legion and arab villagers, who attacked their village, kfar etzion.
It is a story of deception, illegality with knowledge aforethought, and failed political thinking. There is a new movie which reenacts the events before israels war of independence. Yet it is never mentioned that the settlement kibbutz of kfar etzion, located in the etzion settlement bloc, was based on a community that had existed in the same location prior to the war of. Rav raanan earned his semicha and completed a bachelor of education degree from herzog college. On may 4, 1948, the arab legion attacked kfar etzion. The kfar etzion massacre refers to a massacre of jews that took place after a two day battle in. Kfar etzion has risen and died three times in the recent history of the judean hills. After 90 years, gush etzion land registered as jewishowned.
If you would like to know more about the history of kfar etzion and the etzion bloc, the following are available online in english. A number of israeli histories of the kfar etzion massacre such as levi, 1986, isseroff, 2005 state that the defenders had put out the white. The 19471948 civil war in mandatory palestine was the first phase of the 1948 palestine war. A history of gush etzion and the massacre of kfar etzion, 2005.
While the characters are fictional, historical events are accurately portrayed. This is one of very few english novels that take place in british mandate palestine and the only one that tells the story of kfar etzion. The kfar etzion massacre refers to a massacre of jews that took place after a twoday battle in. The story of a binational village amia lieblich on. We continued the short journey to their original target, the kfar etzion kibbutz. Kfar etzion resources and photographs books by yael. The surprising directions they took after form the fabric of israels recent history. The death and rebirth of kfar etzion haaretz israel news haaretz. In a recent essay in the algemeiner, samantha lyons and irvin ungar presented syzks 1941 portrait. The defenders drove them back, but the legion returned a week later. Gush etzion, land of nine lives settled, destroyed, and resettled, the etzion bloc is an irrepressible wellspring of natural, ancient, and historic wonder, divided by a road where the patriarchs. The residents of the samaria town of itamar responded to the words of zionist union chairman avi gabbay in which he said that gush etzion and itamar are not the same thing for us. A history of gush etzion and the massacre of kfar etzion.
Collins and lapierre weave a brilliant tapestry of shattered hopes, fierce pride, and breathtaking valor as the arabs, jews, and british collide in their fight for control of jerusalem. Kfar etzion resources and photographs books by yael politis. Because only by understanding the central role of jihad can we truly understand those controversies surrounding the creation of the state of israel. After gush etzion fell to the jordanians, a group of mother and children from kfar etzion were settled in givat aliyah near bat yam where i lived. No other event in the history of religious zionism has grown to such mythical magnitude and had had such immense impact on the nationalreligious community in israel as the story of kfar etzion. The lonely tree, however, does not read like a history book. He has semicha from the rabbi isaac elchanan theological seminary and an ma in medieval jewish history from the bernard revel graduate school. Yaldei kfar etzion the children of kfar etzion by amia lieblich, university of haifa press and keter publishing, 512 pages, nis 88. A history of gush etzion and the massacre of kfar etzion online article siege in the hills of hebron book by dov knohl available for sale online between. This alltoorare recognition that the arab wars against israel are part of their thousandyear history of jihadof religious waragainst nonmuslims deserves the spotlight. During the months bridging the vote on the partition plan november 29, 1947 and the birth of the state of israel may 15, 1948, gush etzion came under siege. Dershowitz accuses those who attack israel of international bigotry and backs up his argument with hard facts.
Jul 15, 2010 torontopardes hanna israel the lonely tree, movingly written by rising author yael politis, is an important contribution to jewish and zionist literature. Avishai teicherpikiwiki israel construction begins in kfar etzion, an israeli community in the west bank destroyed in the 1948 war and reestablished following the six day war. In like dreamers a paratrooper from the 1967 war dives. My friend chana porath idles and i had been invited to kfar etzion by chaim mageni, an american we knew who had. The land was restored to its jewish owners 90 years after the lands on which gush etzion the etzion bloc was built were first purchased, and 40 years after kibbutz kfar etzion was founded on the ruins of the kibbutz that was destroyed by arabs in. In like dreamers a paratrooper from the 1967 war dives into. This list does not include unlawful deaths due to criminal activity. A work of fiction, it tells the history of kfar etzion a kibbutz in the etzion bloc gush etzion, in hebrew in the judean hills, between jerusalem and hebron. History the history everyone thinks they know misleads us. History and heritage archives gush etzion foundation. The museum concluded with a powerful film about the sad events of may 1948, the day before israeli independence was. The core group includes four jewish agricultural villages that were founded in 19401947 on property purchased in the 1920s and 1930s, and destroyed by the arab legion before the outbreak of the 1948 arabisraeli war, in the kfar etzion massacre. Nestled in the judean hills, some 15 minutes south of jerusalem, is gush etzion, a bloc of israeli settlements whose history goes back to 1920s. Torontopardes hanna israel the lonely tree, movingly written by rising author yael politis, is an important contribution to jewish and zionist literature.
A history of gush etzion and the massacre of kfar etzion early history of gush etzion the four kibbutzim communal settlements of gush etzion are associated with several sad and glorious chapters in the history of modern israel, and with a massacre carried out by arab palestinians. The kfar etzion community of memory, in a conscious, political fashion, exploited 1948 for the benefit of 1967 and the state of. It is a characterdriven love story with no political agenda. On 10 december, the first organized attack occurred when ten members of a convoy between bethlehem and kfar etzion were killed. The heroic story made further headway into israeli collective consciousness thanks to the publication, almost four decades later, of a book documenting inter. The uses of memory made kfar etzion into a microcosm of the land of israel, jewish history, and the zionist revolution. Here we visited a museum detailing the history of modern jewish settlement in the area, dating back to the 1920s. The real history of kfar etzion is a story of collaboration between settlers and a political leadership that saw settlement as a sacred value. After first being established in the 1920s, again in the 30s, and again in the 40s, kibbutz kfar etzion was reestablished a third time on september 25, 1967 after the sixday war. That is, frankly, dreadful writing, for many reasons the kfar etzion massacre refers to. List of killings and massacres in mandatory palestine wikipedia. Rewriting the history of israels 1948 war global diaspora news. The story of kfar etzion in israels war of independence represents the constitutive heroic myth of the religiouszionist community.
The transjordan frontier force tjff was established at sarafand on 1 april 1926 with a cadre drawn from the arab legion and quickly grew to three cavalry squadrons, each of 120 men each, and an infantry unit. A 19yearold yeshivah student and israel defense forces recruit was found dead by the side of a road on thursday morning near kibbutz migdal oz in gush etzion, apparently the victim of a terrorist attack. Survivors of the holocaust set out to make new lives for themselves by working the barren and rocky land which had been ignored since the. Documentary about the settlers shows them as israeli left. Kfar etzion kibbutz migdal oz kibbutz neve daniel rosh tzurim kibbutz references. The second attempt was made by shmuel holtzman in 1935, who established the village of kfar etzion and after whom gush etzion is named holtztreeetz. Etzion village is an israeli settlement orgabnized as a religious kibbutz located in the judean hills between jerusalem and hebron in the southern west bank, established in 1927, depopulated in 1948 and reestablished in 1967. View of the reconstructed kfar etzion courtesy of the kfar etzion archives during the.
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