Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies Presents: The Oldest Guard - NOV 15

Talk: "The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past" by Dr. Liora Halperin
Monday November 15, 2021 • Zoom
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Register here: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpf-yvpzgtGta9hNYH3pw4qrpg6sXZ8QWc

In this talk, Liora Halperin tells the story of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. Though they grew into the backbone of lucrative citrus and wine industries in British mandate Palestine and Israel, absorbed tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants, and became known as the “first wave” (First Aliyah) of Zionist settlement, these communities have been regarded—and disregarded—in the history of Zionism as sites of conservatism, lack of ideology, and resistance to Zionist Labor politics.