Beit Avi Chai presents "The First Aliya" - A lecture series about the First Aliya and its people with musical accompaniment
The series returns to the agricultural colonies of the First Aliya, its people, and its special stories. A fresh acquaintance with those who carried the daily hardships on their backs-dug wells, planted orchards, spoke Hebrew, and raised children in a hot, harsh, and stubborn land.
Editor and moderator: Prof. Gur Alroey, Department of Land of Israel Studies and head of the School of History, University of Haifa.
Music: Ronit Ofir
Session 1: The Jewish World Changes its Appearance
Wednesday, May 9, 20:00
What made hundreds of thousands of Jews leave Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century? Where did the immigrants go? Was Eretz Israel the coveted goal of their wanderings?
Lecturer: Prof. Gur Alroey
Admission free, subject to available space
Tickets available from 7 PM
Session 2: Those Girls
Who were the women of the First Aliya? What was their contribution to the development of the Yishuv, and why were they shunted to the sidelines of historical research for so many years?
Lecturer: Prof. Margalit Shilo, Department of Land of Israel Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Special guest: Amos Danieli, son of a veteran family from Rehovot
Admission free, subject to available space
Tickets available from 7 PM
Session 3: The Baron will Pay
May 23, 2012
Why did the Baron Rothschild support settlement in Eretz Israel? What was his relationship with the settlers? What spurred the farmer on his colonies to rebel?
Lecturer: Dr. Ran Aharonson, Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Special guest: Dr. Rafael Shefer, son of a veteran family from Yavne'el.
The session will be accompanied by musical segments acted out by the Zamarin Theatre.
Admission free, subject to available space
Tickets available from 7 PM
Session 4: The Yemenites
Wednesday, May 30, 8 PM
Why did Yemenite Jews make aliya during this period? Insights into their acculturation and their relationship with members of the Old Yishuv and with the immigrants from Europe. Lecturer: Prof. Yossi Tovy, Department of Comparative Hebrew Literature, University of Haifa
Admission free, subject to available space
Tickets available from 7 PM
Session 5: When the First Aliya Met the Second
Wednesday, June 6, 8 PM
The encounter between the immigrants of the First Aliya and the pioneers of the Second Aliya was complex. Why were the farmers reluctant to absorb the halutzim on their farms? What lay behind their enmity towards the newcomers?
Lecturer: Muki Tzur, Historical reseracher of the Kibbutz movement
Admission free, subject to available space
Tickets available from 7 PM
This is a Hebrew-language only event.
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