Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine

Examines the struggle of Jewish women to join defense and military activities during the decades leading up to the Israeli War of Independence. The Jewish women's revolution was one of the quietest and most angst-stricken of the revolutionary processes experienced by Zionism and the Yishuv (the Jewish community pre-1948) in Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century but at the same time one of the most profound and lasting among them. Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine addre