This book presents an ethnographic history of the Old Yishuv. It describes and analyzes a significant community that reflected more than any other the various strands of Jewish life and the constraints and processes acting upon the Jewish world of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. .
Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, writer, speaker and human rights activist. He is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign