Section I: Roots of the "New Yishuv": 1. Letter of complaint to the settlers of Rishon Le-Tsion (1883) / Baron Edmond de Rothschild -- 2. Dispensation for the sabbatical year (1888) -- 3. The Rothschild administration (1890) / Mordechai Ben Hillel Ha-Kohen -- 4. Truth from Eretz Yisrael (1891) / Ahad Ha-am -- 5. Outline for an agenda (1906) / Ha-po'el Ha-Tsa'ir -- 6. Platform (1906) and proposal for a program (1907) / Po'alei Tsion -- 7. The strike at Kinneret farm (1911) / David Ben-Gurion -- 8. The Yemenite immigrants and their absorption in the settlements (1913) / Shmuel Yavnieli -- 9. Founding statement (1909) / Ha-Shomer -- 10. Letters from an anonymous farm wife of the first Aliyah (1889) -- 11. Pioneer women of the second Aliyah -- 12. Jaffa changes its face (1907) / Ze'ev Smilansky -- Section II: Building the Jewish national home: -- 13. The selection of the fittest (1919) / Arthur Ruppin -- 14. The collective agricultural settlements in Palestine (1927) / Yitzhak Wilkansky -- 15. Song of the valley (1934) / Nathan Alterman -- 16. Going down to the sea (1937) / David Ben-Gurion -- 17. Labor incidents in Palestine (1925) / W. Ormsby Gore -- 18. The Pechter strike (1927) / Anonymous Jewish workers -- 19. The labor brigade (1926) -- 20. Tel Aviv (1933) / Yitzhak Gruenbaum -- 21. Tel Aviv as a Jewish city (1939) -- 22. Platform for the 1931 elections to the representative assembly (1931) / Union of United General Zionists -- 23. Thou shalt not wear Sha'atnez (1929) / Vladimir Jabotinsky -- 24. Betar and the Zionist revolution (1932) / Yehoshua Heschel Yevin -- 25. The strike at the Froumine biscuit factory (1932) -- 26. Labor disputes and acts of violence (1934) / David Remez -- 27. Rabbi Herzog on the chief rabbinate (ca. 1948) -- 28. Public announcement (1938) / The Neturei Karta community of Haredi Jewry Section III: Forging a modern Hebrew culture in the land of Israel: -- 29. Plain language association (1889) / Eliezer Ben Yehuda -- 30. How to spread the use of Hebrew (1927) / Menachem Ussishkin -- 31. Purim celebrations in Tel Aviv (1931) -- 32. The national and cultural importance of Bezalel (1930) / Joseph Klausner -- 33. The Hebrew stage : Moriah, not Acropolis (1926) / Avigdor Hameiri -- 34. Mordechai Golinkin and the Palestine opera (1927) -- 35. The cinema controversy in Tel Aviv (1932) -- 36. The Hebrew University (1925) / Chaim Weizmann -- Section IV: Jewish-Arab conflict and Zionist responses: -- 37. The need for defense (1919) / Yitzhak Tabenkin -- 38. Tel Hai (1920) / Y.H. Brenner -- 39. Yizkor (1920) / Berl Katznelson -- 40. Response to the Arab riots (1930) / The General Federation of Laborers in the land of Israel -- 41. The future of Zionist policy (1932) / Chaim Arlosoroff -- 42. On the partition of Palestine (1937) / Bavid Ben-Gurion -- 43. Platform for Judeo-Arab accord (1930) / Chaim Margalit-Kalvarisky -- 44. Platform (1942) / Ihud -- 45. On the iron wall (1923) / Vladimir Jabotinsky -- 46. On militarism (1929) / Vladimir Jabotinsky -- Section V: World War II, the Holocaust, and the Yishuv: -- 47. Diary (1940-41) / Arthur Ruppin -- 48. Introduction to The Book of Valor (1941) / Berl Katznelson -- 49. On the defense of Palestine and the Jews (1942) / David Ben-Gurion -- 50. Origins of the Palmach (1941-42) -- 51. The Palmach's first operations (1944) / Yitzak Sadeh -- 52. The Palmach anthem (1941) / Zerubavel Gilad -- 53. Outlines of Zionist policy (1941) / David Ben-Gurion -- 54. Liberating Jerusalem (1942) / Irgun Tzva'i Le'umi -- 55. Four years (1943) / Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsa'ir -- 56. Works by Avraham Stern and Lehi (1932-ca. 1943) -- Section VI: The Struggle for Palestine and the establishment of the state: -- 57. The Silver platter (1947) / Nathan Alterman -- 58. A Jewish child's letter to an Israeli soldier (1948) -- 59. Public opinion during the 1948 war -- 60. Radio broadcasts from the Voice of Fighting Zion (1947) -- 61. Deir Yassin (1948) / The Voice of Fighting Zion -- 62. The status quo agreements (1947)