An unpromising land : Jewish migration to Palestine in the early twentieth century / Gur Alroey.

From the beginning of the twentieth century until World War I, about 35,000 Jews reached Palestine. Historians and social scientists have tended to apply different criteria to immigration to Palestine than those usual in the study of immigration. They have stressed the uniqueness of Jewish immigrati...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Alroey, Gur (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : aliyah versus migration
  • Three revolutions and the pogroms
  • Reaching a decision
  • Profile of the immigrants
  • The journey to Palestine
  • Adaptation and acclimatization in the new land
  • Leaving Palestine.