Immigrants in Turmoil: Mass Immigration to Israel and Its Repercussions in the 1950s and AfterThis work analyzes problems of scope and timing incurred by mass immigration during the nation's formative years, and examines the physical, financial, organizational, and economic realities. It also explores the fate of Palestinian Jews and the roles played by internal and global factions. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Policy in the Making | 12 |
Policy Put to the Test | 58 |
Immigrants aboard SS Negba rejoice on arrival in Israel | 59 |
Magic Carpet airlift from Aden to Israel | 65 |
An immigrant from Kurdistan with her baby son | 81 |
New immigrants after arriving at the Shaar haAliyah camp near Haifa | 90 |
Financial Crisis and Policy Implications | 95 |
Prime Minister David BenGurion visits the school at Farradiya | 164 |
Confronting the OldTimers | 187 |
Changes in Immigration and Absorption Policy | 222 |
Rain seepage in a tent at Rosh HaAyin camp | 224 |
Immigration During 194898 and Its Ramifications | 251 |
Soviet Jews disembark at BenGurion Airport | 258 |
Appendixes | 265 |
E Number of Immigrants to Israel 15 May 194831 December 1951 | 271 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Immigrants in Turmoil: Mass Immigration to Israel and Its Repercussions in the 1950s and After Modern Jewish History |
| Author | Dvora Hacohen |
| Translated by | Gila Brand |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0815629907, 9780815629900 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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