Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I: The 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) - Yitzahak 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) - William 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 the United General Zionist -- 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 Haredy 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) - 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) - David 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) - Yitzhak 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 of 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) -- Glossary -- For Further Reading.