פרק: About the website of the Labor Movement in Israel

This website focuses on the history of the Labor Movement in Israel from the beginning of Zionist settlement at the end of the 19th century up to 1977. The initiative for the creation of this site came from the Berl Katznelson Foundation, the Founders' Foundation and a group of academic researchers in this field. The aim of the site is to record the activities of the Labor Movement and the historical significance of its achievements both throughout the period preceding the establishment of the State of Israel and that following its establishment. These extensive and varied achievements are presented from a variety of perspectives: historical, cultural and socio-economic.

The Contents and the Process of Website Construction

The Labor Movement website consists of a cluster of sites, each one an independent site focused on a key theme in the light of which the achievements of the Labor Movement are examined. These websites are inter-connected, thereby facilitating multi-faceted searches for information, including information from each of these sites as needed.

The data content of each site was compiled and edited under the guidance and with the assistance of academic researchers who graciously contributed their time, advice and research to this project, and we extend our thanks to them.

The website is designed in a modular fashion and is under ongoing construction, with content continuously enriched and expanded. Researchers and academics interested in contributing their work to the site are invited to establish contact with us.

The publishers:

•  The Berl Katznelson Foundation
• The Founders' Foundation

With the support of:

• The Lavon Institute for Labor Research, Tel Aviv
• Yad Tabenkin – the Research and Documentation Center of the Kibbutz Movement, Efal
• Yad Yaari Center for Research and Documentation of the Hashomer Hatzair Movement and the Kibbutz Haartzi Federation, Givat Haviva

Scientific Editing

• Dr. Abigail Paz-Yeshayahu – content planning, writing and editing

Academic Advisors and Contributors (a-z)

• Mr. Yuval Danieli
• Prof. Yuval Dror
• Prof. Yair Garbuz

• Prof. Yosef Gorni
• Prof. Yitzchak Greenberg
• Dr. Bat-Sheva Margalit-Stern
• Dr. Mordechai Naor
• Prof. Henry Nir
• Dr. Eli Zur

Editorial Team: (a-z)

• Mr. Eyal Brun
• Mr. Omri Kfir
• Ms. Tali Naor

• with the assistance of: Ms. Anat Barel and Mr. Nati Kantarovitz

Editorial Board:

• Dr. Avi Bareli
• Prof. Yosef Gorni
• Prof. Yitzchak Greenberg
• Dr. Mordechai Naor
• Dr. Abigail Paz-Yeshayahu

Website Construction:

• Website design and production: Neora Shem Shaul www.neora.com (lately created "No Legal Frontiers", The Polish Institute, and more...)
• Data structures, navigation mechanisms, image galleries - Neora
• Programming: Neora, Nimrod Keret

This site is constructed on a ZOPE platform (open code for data management) and hosted in sweethome.co.il

In constructing this website, our concern was not only with aesthetics and with convenience of data access for the web - surfer, but also a serious attempt to utilize the hyper-textual qualities of the system in order to construct a data system with internal links and links to the wider world, by means of various levels of links, the possibility of navigating among various types of data (chapters of research, personae, displays, chronologies, visual galleries and so forth). In part, we struggled with challenge of presenting the various possible cross-cuttings in the enormous data matrix, and in part, in constructing an effective interface for the editors charged with entering the data and linking it in all directions. This was made possible by utilizing existent knowledge, but no less, by trial and error, through teamwork that brought together the language of researchers an the language of programmers.

Copyrights

The program and textual contents of this site (with the exception of exhibits displayed with a listing of the name of their creator/or archive to which they belong) are registered with the permit of Creative –Commons, which permits utilization of data for non-commercial purposes only, and with preservation of this type of license only for any product resulting from its utilization.


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 1.0 Israeli License

The Berl Katznelson Foundation has made a concerted effort to identify the creators and authors of the documents, photographs and posters displayed on this site. In the case of documents published without acknowledgment of authorship, or in the event of any unintended or unaware infringement of copyright, please contact us and we will be happy to make the necessary corrections. Display of documents on this site is for purposes of study, research and historical interest and is to be regarded as such.

Editors' Address:

E-mail: tnuathaavoda@gmail.com