Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
קתדרה
Angaben zur Quelle:
177 (תשפא) 141-162
Keywords:
Jews, Yemeni History
;
Emergency housing History 1948-1967
;
Kiryat Shemona (Israel) History 20th century
;
Kiryat Shemona (Israel) Social conditions
;
Tnuvot (Israel) History
;
Sha'ar Efrayim (Israel) History
Abstract:
This article will focus on the ways in which overtwo hundred families of Yemenite immigrants whofounded the city of Kiryat Shmona functioned as agroup during the immigration process.This case-study coincides with the trend – withinthe research of mass immigration to Israel – thatrelates the historical narrative through the perspectiveof the immigrant and settlers’ groups, rather thanfrom the vantage point of the establishment in chargeof their absorption. The affair could have gone downin the annals of history as a story of weakness andvictimhood: hundreds of Yemenite immigrants weresent off to settle in an outlying peripheral region andwere compelled to integrate into an environmentin which the financially powerful kibbutzim weredominant, having a grip on culture and affiliatedto the politically powerful Labor Movement. Yetthe Yemenite immigrants of Kiryat Shmona turnedout to be a consolidated, opinionated, activistand stubborn force that succeeded, under tryingconditions, to assert their voice, struggle for theirvalues and identity, affect major changes withinthe immigration-absorption system and finally,become organized and establish new rural settlementsthat would be better suited to their needs andlifestyle.
Note:
With an English summary.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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