As I have shown, throughout his essays, Gordon establishes a narrative of the diaspora past that is distinctly negative, relying on images of the Jewish people as passive and parasitic, alienated from nature and work. and therefore without living culture. Through his ideology, Gordon establishes an idea of ​​the perfect relationship between man, nature and work; a relationship that must be retained for a people to be a living and creative culture. Gordon asserts that the Jewish people have been kept apart from the natural sphere in their own country in which they developed as a people, and have been cut off from direct contact with nature in the countries where they live in diaspora, thus creating a strictly negative feeling. identity of Jews in the diaspora. The diaspora experience is presented by Gordon as an identity experience that is presupposed as part of Jewish self-understanding. Gordon's ideology indicates that the diaspora was a degrading and negative experience for all Jews: “I look at you, my people. I see you degraded, hungry, poor, thirsty, beaten and wounded, torn and martyred, you are no longer a giant; the light from your face has faded... you are miserable, very miserable, no one is as miserable as you - only miserable, nothing else! You crawl in the mud and your little ones cry deafeningly” (Letters, III, 137). The idea of ​​diaspora and group identity influenced each other, such that the concept of Jewish identity was shaped by the diaspora experience. , and the perception of the diaspora has been influenced by the perceived identity as Jewish people destined for Palestine. As the diaspora experience is presented as a distinct identity trait of the Jewish people, there is...... middle of paper ....an economy created from sharply contrasting identities helps Gordon to consolidate its goal of reaffirming the Jewish people as a strong nation rebuilding its homeland and its faith. Gordon's goal is to create a new type of Jew, one who works the land with manual labor in harmony with nature. For this ideal to be attractive, it must establish a strong opposite in order to crystallize the need for change. As a narrative construction, the negation of diaspora serves an important function in Gordon's essays, first because it establishes a certain ideology within his community of readers, and second because it effectively establishes a whole of boundaries between the future in Palestine and the past in Palestine. the Diaspora. Provoking the certain downfall of Jews in the Diaspora due to their estrangement from work, the pioneers were encouraged to accept forced labor within the Yishuv..