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Our national work in Palestine by Israel Belkind is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Our national work in Palestine about?
Belkind was the head of the first group of Bilu pioneers, which reached Eretz Yisrael in July, 1882. He worked first in Mikveh Yisrael and Rishon LeTzion, and then moved to Gedera, the first official Bilu community. Belkind, however, did not succeed in adjusting to agricultural labor, and instead devoted himself to education. He taught first at a private school in Jaffa, and then moved to Jerusalem to teach at the Alliance Israelite Universelle. His goals as a teacher were to fuse Jewish values with practical labor. In 1903 Belkind founded an agricultural school in Shfeya, near Zikhron Yaakov, for youths orphaned in the Kishinev pogrom, but the school failed three years later for lack of money.After 1906, Belkind wandered around Eretz Yisrael and countries abroad, never really finding a permanent home. He had published several textbooks while teaching, and continued his work as a writer. He contributed many articles to contemporary journals and wrote popular articles on history. He was an editor of “HaMeir,” a monthly publication on settlement and the Yishuv, and in the United States during World War I, he published his memoirs, “The First Steps of the Jewish Settlement in Palestin
Who reads Our national work in Palestine?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Israel Belkind
- Publisher
- Pinski-Massel Press
- Published
- 1918
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Social_sciences