Kanaan - Erec Izrael - Judeja - Palestina - Izrael

Abstract

Ova knjiga hronološki prati istoriju geografskog prostora današnjeg Izraela i Palestine, sa posebnim osvrtom na imenâ kojima se taj prostor u periodu od 4 hiljade godina, zvao i imenovao. Ti nazivi su bili određeni kako geografskim tako i verskim ali i političko-istorijskim okolnostima tog vremena: Obećana zemlja- Kanaan- Erec Izrael- Judeja- Sveta zemlja- Palestina- Cion- Izrael. U prvom delu knjige ona donosi kratke i zanimljive istorijske podatke, ali i izvore i poreklo za svaki od tih naziva kojima se u dato vreme određivao i imenovao ovaj prostor. Ali najveći deo knjige posvećen je i govori o periodu kada se on počeo zvati Palestina. Ono što je posebno bogato u tom delu knjige jeste veliki broj zanimljivih i manje poznatih informacija, podataka i činjenica koje nam govore o izuzetnoj povezanosti i vezi Jevreja i Palestine, kako u fizičko životnom smislu, tako i u jezičko - lingvističkom, kada je još od 9. veka, a posebno u 19. i 20. veku, dakle daleko pre obnove države Izrael 1948. godine, taj termin i ime ’Palestina’ bilo sastavni deo i odrednica oko 70 jevrejskih privrednih, socijalnih, kulturnih, bankovnih, novinskih i brojnih drugih institucija, organizacija i udruženja. Kroz bogato dati istorijat njihovog nastajanja i predočenih izuzetno zanimljivih podataka o svakoj od njih, čitalac prati i istoriju borbe i zalaganja Jevreja da u svojoj (pra)domovini Palestini / Erec Izraelu / ponovo obnove svoj nacionalni i politički identitet i dom. Kratkim ali bogatim informativnim tekstovima, ovo je ujedno i priča o istoriji nastajanja Izraela. Više, u knjizi predstavljenih zanimljivih informacija, govore nam i o prisutnosti i vezi Jevreja iz ondašnje (tadašnje) Kraljevine Jugoslavije u Palestini, dajući više podataka o interesantnim događajima u vezi sa tim, od pre Drugog svetskog rata. Posebno je pomenuto i sađenje u Palestini pomen šuma kralju Petru I Karađorđeviću i kralju Aleksandru I Karađorđeviću. U posebnom poglavlju knjige data su intrigantna i zanimljiva razmišljanja, opservacije i podaci o odnosu i komentaru samih Arapa u vezi sa imenom ’Palestina’, kao i njihovom odnosu prema tom imenu. U delu knjige pod naslovom - Sveta zemlja - dati su podaci i slikovni prikazi koji govore o verskim svetim mestima judaizma, hrićanstva i islama u Svetoj zemlji i njihovom značaju za svaku od ovih religija.

This book chronologically follows the history of the geographical area of today's Israel and Palestine, with special reference to the names by which that area was called and named over a period of 4 thousand years. Those names were determined both geographically and religiously, but also by the political-historical circumstances of that time: Promised Land - Canaan - Eretz Israel - Judea - Holy Land - Palestine - Zion - Israel. In the first part of the book, brief and interesting historical data are presented, as well as the sources and origins of each of the names that were used to define and name this area at that time. But the largest part of the book is devoted to the period when it was called Palestine. What is especially rich in that part of the book is a large number of interesting and lesser-known information, data and facts that tell us about the extraordinary connection and connection between Jews and Palestine, both in the physical sense of life, and in the language-linguistic sense, when since 9 century, and especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, that is, long before the restoration of the state of Israel in 1948, that term and the name 'Palestine' was an integral part and determinant of about 70 Jewish economic, social, cultural, banking, newspaper and numerous other institutions, organizations and associations. Through the rich history of their creation and the presented extremely interesting data about each of them, the reader follows the history of the struggle and commitment of the Jews to rebuild their national and political identity and home in their (ancestral) homeland Palestine / Eretz Israel /. With short but richly informative texts, this is also a story about the history of the creation of Israel. More of the interesting information presented in the book tells us about the presence and connection of Jews from the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Palestine and gives a lot of information about related interesting events before the Second World War. Special mention was also made of the planting of forests in Palestine in memory of King Peter I Karađorđević and King Aleksandar I Karađorđević. In a special chapter of the book, intriguing interesting thoughts, observations and data are given about the attitude and commentary of the Arabs themselves regarding the name 'Palestine', as well as their attitude towards that name. In the part of the book entitled - The Holy Land - data and illustrations are given about the religious holy places of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Holy Land and their importance for each of these religions.