RARE comprehensive monograph on pre-Zionist Jewish settlement of Israel, with an analysis of the differences between the Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, religious and secular, Arabs and Jews, "Old" and "New" Yishuv forces, which provides the necessary background for understanding the different socio-cultural trends in contemporary Israeli society. 235x155mm. XIV+290 pages. Blue cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt spine. Jacket slightly dirty/yellowing. Jacket edges worn. Cover curved. Cover corners and spine edges bumped and rubbed. Front whitepage slightly rubbed/slightly dirty. Text block upper edge dirty/slightly stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare elegant historico-ethnographic book, the first major study of the Old Yishuv to appear in English, is in good condition.