To Build and Be Built: Landscape, Literature, and the Construction of Zionist IdentityEric Zakim follows the literary and intellectual career of the powerful Zionist slogan to build and be built from its conceptual origin in reaction to the Kishinev pogroms of 1903, when it first served as an expression of settlement aspiration, until the end of pre state national expansion in Palestine in 1938. Draining the swamps and making the desert bloom, the Jewish settlers imagined themselves as performing miracles on the land. By these acts,