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Impossible exodus : Iraqi Jews in Israel / Orit Bashkin

Bashkin, Orit, 1974- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017] [© 2017]

x, 305 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

1-5036-0265-6 ; 0-8047-9585-1 ; 978-1-5036-0265-6 (pbk. : £20.99); 978-0-8047-9585-2 (hbk. : £73.00)

OCoLC: 966891664     

LB 46345  | NY 7000      Ähnliche Literatur

DS113.8.I72

304.8/56940567 ; 304.856940567

Basisklassifikation: 15.76 (Vorderer und mittlerer Orient) <Geschichte> ; 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel)

*Irak ; Juden ; Auswanderung ; Exil ; Israel ; Geschichte 1949-1951     Zum Register

*Israel ; Einwanderung ; Irak ; Juden ; Exil ; Geschichte 1949-1951     Zum Register

*Irak ; Juden ; Einwanderer ; Israel ; Geschichte 1949-2015     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jews, Iraqi -- Israel -- Social conditions -- 20th century ; Jews, Iraqi -- Civil rights -- Israel -- History -- 20th century ; Jews, Iraqi -- Israel -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century ; Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Israel -- History -- 20th century ; Israel -- History -- 1948-1967

Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were squalid and unsanitary. Basic necessities like water were in short supply, when they were available at all. Rather than returning to a homeland as native sons, Iraqi Jews were newcomers in a foreign place. Impossible Exodus tells the story of these Iraqi Jews' first decades in Israel. Faced with ill treatment and discrimination from state officials, Iraqi Jews resisted: they joined Israeli political parties, demonstrated in the streets, and fought for the education of their children, leading a civil rights struggle whose legacy continues to influence contemporary debates in Israel. Orit Bashkin sheds light on their everyday lives and their determination in a new country, uncovering their long, painful transformation from Iraqi to Israeli. In doing so, she shares the resilience and humanity of a community whose story has yet to be told