Refugees Or Migrants - Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement

For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained as the result of divine punishment, or as a response to maltreatment of Jews by majority populations, or as the result of Jews' acceptance of their minority status perpetuating the maltreatment and forced migration. In this absorbing book, Robert Chazan explores these various accounts, and argues that Jewish population movement was in most cases voluntary, the result of a Jewish sense that there were alternatives available for making a better life.

Summary

A leading historian argues that historically Jews were more often voluntary migrants than involuntary refugees

Product details

• Authors: Robert Chazan, Chazan Robert
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780300218572
• ISBN: 978-0-300-21857-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, RELIGION / Judaism / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, History of Religion, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Social and cultural history, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities