Unpromising Land - Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century

Zusatztext "Gur Alroey has refocused the great Jewish migration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries! putting the migration to Palestine into its proper perspective. By doing so he expands our understanding of not only that small stream but its larger global scope. By making the immigrants to Palestine just like! but still different than! those to the United States he both demystifies the former and sheds light on the latter. By eliminating ideology from the one migration! he helps us understand who went where! why! and how." Informationen zum Autor Gur Alroey is Professor of Jewish History in Modern Times and Chair of the School of History at the University of Haifa. He is also author of Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century (2011). Klappentext Promised Land questions the prevailing assumption that Eastern European Jews were motivated by Zionism to immigrate to Palestine in the early twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Promised Land questions the prevailing assumption that Eastern European Jews were motivated by Zionism to immigrate to Palestine in the early twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Gur Alroey
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.06.2014
• EAN: 9780804789325
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8932-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories