Zionism in an Arab Country: Jews in Iraq in the 1940s

ISBN-13: 9780415761505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Esther Meir-Glitzenstein

Opis

The relations between the Zionist establishment in Israel and the Jewish community in Iraq up to the 1940s is the subject of this study. The study focuses upon the sphere of Zionist activity and the circumstances that led up to the mass emigration of the Jews from Iraq to the state of Israel.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Evolution of the Iraqi Jewish Community in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  Part 1: Zionism in Iraq, 1941 to 1949  1. Relations between the Jews, British and Arabs in Iraq in the 1940s  2. The Reversal in Zionist Policy vis-à-vis the Jews of Islamic Countries  3. National Encounter and Culture Clash: The Emissaries and the Jews of Iraq  4. The Hehalutz Movements in Iraq  5. Young Women in the Zionist Movement  6. The Zionist Struggle for the Jewish Street  7. Legal and Illegal Aliyah  8. The Haganah  Part 2: Preparing to Leave Iraq  9. A Community Trapped: Iraqi Jewry during the War of Independence  10. The Zionist Movement in Iraq during the Persecutions  11. From Emigration to Expulsion: The Mass Immigration of Iraqi Jewry to Israel.  Conclusion

O autorze

Dr. Esther Meir-Glitzstein is a Lecturer in Jewish History in the Program for Israel Studies in Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Research Fellow, Ben Gurion Research Center. Her fields of research are the history of the Jews in Arab countries in the modern period, their emigration and the integration of Mizrahi immigrants in Israeli society.