Beyond abstract labor: rethinking the role of farming hand tools in Second Aliyah labor ideology

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Abstract

The existing literature on the Second Aliyah commonly focuses either on the human agents (‘the workers’), their activity (‘agricultural labor’) or the object on which labor is being performed (‘the Land of Israel’). The article adds to the existing works by charting the conceptual space of farming hand tools by which the workers sought to labor the land. A close reading of the Second Aliya workers’ writings reveals their view of these tools as an important factor–both as passive as well as transformative instruments–in accomplishing the major objectives guiding their labor ideology.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)52-67
Number of pages16
JournalJewish Culture and History
Volume22
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

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Keywords

  • A. D. Gordon
  • Labor Zionism
  • Second Aliyah
  • Yitzhak Wilkanski (Elazari-Volcani)
  • agricultural labor
  • the ‘Jewish plow’
  • turiya

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cultural Studies
  • History
  • Sociology and Political Science

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