Summary
A Second Aliya settler whose reports home to Poland, in Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, record disgust at Arab presence in Rishon Lezion and the conclusion that the colony became home only once Arabs were not allowed to pass through it (Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, PDF p.13 / printed p.51).
Details
- His family name was re-invented on arrival and meant a liberated person, as Pappé notes (PDF p.13).
- On Rishon Lezion he wrote that he was flabbergasted, in his word Nehradeti, and asked whether it was a terrible mistake to come here and whether this was a foreign country; writing later, he noted that once the Arabs were not allowed to pass through it became home (PDF p.13, note 26 to ‘A Pact with the Land’, p.239).
- Cited also in note 24: ‘The Pioneers of Zion’, in The Book of the Second Aliya, p.139, for the shore women’s welcome salute heard as fiery eyes and a strange garrotted language (PDF p.12-13, p.19).
Related pages
Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, Rishon Lezion, Second Aliya