Palestine for the third time / Ksawery Pruszyński ; translated with an introduction by Wiesiek Powaga ; foreword by Antony Polonsky.

On a Bunk Bed with the Halutzim -- The Dust of the Road -- The Land Without Crises -- More Beautiful Than Paris -- The Jews Who Do Not Like It Here -- The Onward March of Israel -- Suppliers of Men and Money -- Malaria and Millions -- Histadrut Haovdim -- Like Stones Thrown against a Bulwark -- Trekking across Emek Israel -- Sabras of Ein Harod -- Gesher -- Glass Towers Are not a Myth -- From Ghetto to Kibbutz -- The Dollar Falls Twenty Percent -- Only Four Weeks -- The Wailing Wall -- Socialism -- Collective Love -- Kibbutz, Kolkhoz, Cloister -- The Jewish Population Catches Up -- In the Eyes of Young Islam -- Arabs in the Eyes of Jews -- Christian Jerusalem -- Nineteen Centuries after Pilate : A Night in Gethsemane -- The Way of the Cross -- Resurrexit -- So Many Different Roads : Das Wirkliche Deutschland -- A Daemonio Meridiano . . . -- Roads -- The Threat of Soviet Cannons

"Palestine for the Third Time is a book of reportage originally published in Poland in 1933 by Ksawery Pruszyński, a young reporter working for a Polish newspaper, who went to Mandate Palestine to see for himself whether the Zionist dream of returning to Eretz Yisrael had a chance of turning into reality. Travelling widely and talking to people he happened to meet on his way-Jews, Arabs, committed dreamers and the disaffected-he was trying to explain to his readers what he was seeing. This book is a unique firsthand account of the early stages in formation of the state and nation of Israel. But it's not just a nostalgic vignette. It resonates powerfully today, linking Tony Judt, Edward Said, and Amos Oz, illuminating the hotly debated questions of modern Israel"--