Introduction

Israel Bartal, François Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, and Scott Ury

I. Before Zionism

Hasidic Communities in the Land of Israel in the Nineteenth Century

Uriel Gellman

Polish Distinctiveness in Jerusalem, Congress Poland, and Western Prussia in the Nineteenth Century

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

II. From the Beginnings of Zionism to the Second World War

Between Attraction and Repulsion, Disaster and Hope: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel before 1948

Lukasz Tomasz Sroka

Zionism in Poland, Poland in Zionism

Anna Landau-Czajka

The Fourth Aliyah and the Fulfilment of Zionism in the Land of Israel

Meir Chazan

Nalewki Street in Tel Aviv? The Political Heritage of East European Jewry in the Yishuv and the State of Israel

Gershon Bacon

Between Tlomackie 13, Warsaw, and Kaplan 2, Tel Aviv: The Role of the East European Jewish Press in Shaping Israeli Journalism

Ela Bauer

Jewish Politics Without Borders: How Ben-Gurion Won the Elections to the Zionist Congress of 1933

Rona Yona

A Bridge between West and East: Polish Economic Policy and the Yishuv

Katarzyna Dziekan

Palestine for the Third Time: Ksawery Pruszynski and the Emergence of Israel

Wieslaw Powaga

III. From the War to the Israeli Declaration of Independence

Imagined Motherland: Zionism in Poland after the Holocaust

Natalia Aleksiun

Between Hostility and Intimacy: Christian and Jewish Polish Citizens in the USSR, Iran, and Palestine

Mikhal Dekel

Mordecai Tsanin: Yiddish Orphanhood in Israel and Afterlife in Poland

Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

IV. From Israeli Independence to the End of Communism

Art and Society between Poland and Israel: The Life and Work of Henryk Hechtkopf

Hanna Lerner

Yom-Tov Levinsky, Jewish Ritual, and Exile in Israeli Culture

Adi Sherzer

Israel Expunged: Communist Censorship of the Polish Catholic Press, 1945-1989

Bozena Szaynok

Homeland, State, and Language: The Integration of Polish Jews into Israel

Elzbieta Kossewska

The Polish Exodus of 1968: Antisemitism, Dropouts, and Re-emigrants in Nowiny i Kurier

Miri Freilich

V. From the End of Communism to Today

Home as a Place of No Return: Journeys to Poland in the Writings of Child Survivors and the Second and Third Generations

Efraim Sicher

Israelis? Poles? Blurring the Boundaries of Identity in Contemporary Israeli Literature

Shoshana Ronen

Other Family Stories: The Third Post-Holocaust Generation's Journey to Poland

Jagoda Budzik

Neuland, or the Displacement of an Ideal: Israel in the Work of Eshkol Nevo

Alina Molisak

Israel and Poland Confront Holocaust Memory

Yifat Gutman and Elazar Barkan

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