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This article deals with the education, the formation and the image of the student during the first years of the ‘Hebrew educational system’ in Eretz Yisrael. The Hebrew school was influenced by a strong wish to educate an individual to be productive and close to nature, in contrast to the image of the studious Jew, both traditional and modern. By way of examining whether and to what extent this approach resulted in a provincial nationalistic type of teaching that ignored the Humanities and general knowledge, this article will focus on five key elements of the education system in Eretz Yisrael: the educational viewpoint of the Zionist leadership and the examples set by the ‘Founders’ Generation’ for the ‘Second Generation’; curricula of the various Hebrew schools in Eretz Yisrael; textbooks and reference books accessible to young people; the image of the ‘Hebrew teachers’ who taught the Second Generation and their educational objectives; and children's newspapers and literature in Hebrew to which the Second Generation pupils had access.
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