| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection; Halutzim from America during the Palestine Mandate. By Matthew Silver. (West Hartford: Graduate Group, 2006. vi, 386 pp. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-938609-58-2.)
This is an interesting, thoroughly researched, and well-written account of attempts by American Jews to introduce American ideas of democracy and know-how to the Yishuv (pre-Israel community in Eretz Israel). It will be of interest primarily to those already familiar with the history of the mandate period who wish to learn more about Americans who headed major projects in the Yishuv.	1
The book is a series of six essays describing the experience of American Jews who came to the Yishuv to assist in building a Jewish homeland. Matthew Silver concludes that, while a common sense of Jewish identity bound the Americans with the pioneers of the Yishuv, the two different subcultures sometimes clashed, leaving the Americans feeling marginalized and often depressed.	. . .

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