Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: Ksawery Pruszyński ix
4. Selected Bibliography of the Works of Ksawery Pruszyński xxi
5. Introduction xxiii
6. Foreword xxx
7. 1. On a Bunk Bed with the Halutzim 1
8. 2. The Dust of the Road 8
9. 3. The Land without Crises 11
10. 4. More Beautiful than Paris 15
11. 5. The Jews Who Do Not Like It Here 22
12. 6. The Onward March of Israel 28
13. 7. Suppliers of Men and Money 31
14. 8. Malaria and Millions 34
15. 9. Histadrut Haovdim 38
16. 10. Like Stones Thrown against a Bulwark 45
17. 11. Trekking across Emek Israel 52
18. 12. Sabras of Ein Harod 57
19. 13. Gesher 61
20. 14. Glass Towers Are not a Myth 64
21. 15. From Ghetto to Kibbutz 71
22. 16. The Dollar Falls Twenty Percent 72
23. 17. Only Four Weeks 74
24. 18. The Wailing Wall 77
25. 19. Socialism 80
26. 20. Collective Love 83
27. 21. Kibbutz, Kolkhoz, Cloister 84
28. 22. The Jewish Population Catches Up 87
29. 23. In the Eyes of Young Islam 94
30. 24. Arabs in the Eyes of Jews 101
31. 25. Christian Jerusalem 105
32. 26. Nineteen Centuries after Pilate: A Night in Gethsemane 109
33. 27. The Way of the Cross 112
34. 28. Resurrexit 117
35. 29. So Many Different Roads: “Das Wirkliche Deutschland” 118
36. 30. “A Daemonio Meridiano . . .” 123
37. 31. Roads 129
38. 32. The Threat of Soviet Cannons 133
39. Afterword 139
40. Appendix: Ksawery Pruszyński’s Speeches to the UN 144
41. Photographs 154
42. Index 166