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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464842403321
• Autore: Alroey Gur
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8047-9087-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Collana: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• Disciplina: 304.8/5694047089924
• Soggetti: Immigrants - Palestine - History - 20th century; Jews, East European - Migrations - History - 20th century; Jews, East European - Palestine - History - 20th century; Electronic books.; Palestine Emigration and immigration History 20th century; Europe, Eastern Emigration and immigration History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface. Two Grandfathers—Two Grandmothers -- Introduction. Aliyah versus Migration -- One. Three Revolutions and the Pogroms -- Two. Reaching a Decision -- Three. Profile of the Immigrants -- Four. The Journey to Palestine -- Five. Adaptation and Acclimatization in the New Land -- Six. Leaving Palestine -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Jewish migration at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was one of the dramatic events that changed the Jewish people in modern times. Millions of Jews sought to escape the distressful conditions of their lives in Eastern Europe and find a better future for themselves and their families overseas. The vast majority of the Jewish migrants went to the United States, and others, in smaller numbers, reached Argentina, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. From the beginning of the twentieth century until the First World War, about 35,000 Jews reached Palestine. Because of this difference in scale and because of the place the land of Israel possesses in Jewish thought, ; historians and social scientists have tended to apply different criteria to immigration, stressing the uniqueness of Jewish immigration to Palestine and the importance of the Zionist ideology as a central factor in that immigration. This book questions this assumption, and presents a more complex picture both of the causes of immigration to Palestine and of the mass of immigrants who reached the port of Jaffa in the years 1904–1914.