Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate

Rhona Seidelman

Published by Rutgers University Press 2020

Under Quarantine

Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate

Rhona Seidelman

https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978808416

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About this book

Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha’aliya, a central immigrant processing camp opened shortly after Israel became an independent state. This historic gateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversial barbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended this imposing barrier as a necessary quarantine measure - even as detained immigrants regularly defied it by crawling out of the camp and returning at will. Focusing on the conflicts and complications surrounding the medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life. Evocative and bold, Under Quarantine shows that we cannot fully understand Israel until we understand Shaar Ha’aliya. The gate of arrival for nearly half a million immigrants - a space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and welcoming - here was the country’s crucible.

Author / Editor information

Rhona Seidelman is Assistant Professor of History and the Schusterman Chair of Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

Reviews

"With uncompromising care and sensitivity, Rhona Seidelman unpacks the 'great story' of 'Aliah to the newly created Israel and puts the medical dimension of migration at the center. An essential chapter in the history of the Mizrahim."

— Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, author of The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History

"An important contribution to the ever-growing body of Jewish and Israeli studies literature, Jewish immigration studies, and health and immigration scholarship. In particular, it facilitates a broader multidimensional perspective on a specific locus in its historical as well as current contexts."

— AJS Review

"Immigrants and Quarantine at Israel’s Founding with Rhona Seidelman"

— Infectious Historians Podcast

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Barbed Wire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Confines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
2. Structure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. Meaning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4. Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Conclusion: Under Quarantine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Epilogue: The Shaar Ha’aliya Memorial for Migrants and Medicine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
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Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 9 b-w images

eBook

Published: December 13, 2019
ISBN: 9781978808416