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  • Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear

    Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century

    by Gur Alroey ...
    Collects and analyzes letters from Jewish men and women in the early stages of migrating from Eastern Europe.Between 1875 and 1924, more than 2.7 million Jews from Eastern Europe left their home countries in the hopes of escaping economic subjugation and religious persecution and creating better lives overseas. Although many studies have addressed how these millions of men, women, and children ... Read more

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  • Land of Refuge

    Immigration to Palestine, 1919–1927

    by Gur Alroey ...
    Translated by Deborah Stern ...
    After the First World War, tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Palestine. They went there not to found a Zionist state but primarily to seek refuge from the violence and persecution of the Russian Civil War and its aftermath. Fleeing to the United States was not an option due to heavily restrictive immigration laws enacted there in the early 1920s.In Land of Refuge , the experiences of this ... Read more

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  • Zionism Without Zion

    The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization

    by Gur Alroey ...
    Examines an alternative ideology to Zionism that attempted to build a Jewish State outside of Palestine.While the ideologies of Territorialism and Zionism originated at the same time, the Territorialists foresaw a dire fate for Eastern European Jews, arguing that they could not wait for the Zionist Organization to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. This pessimistic worldview led ... Read more

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  • An Unpromising Land

    Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century

    by Gur Alroey ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    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, ... Read more

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  • Pumpkinflowers

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  • The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

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  • The Rise of Israel

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