Between Home and Homeland.Between Home and Homeland Brian Amkraut The University of Alabama Press The University of Alabama Press is a university press that is part of the University of Alabama. External link
PO Box 870380, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380 0817315136 $37.50 www.wapress.edu Associate Professor of Jewish History Jewish history is the history of the Jewish people, faith, and culture. Since Jewish history encompasses nearly four thousand years and hundreds of different populations, any treatment can only be provided in broad strokes. at the Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies Brian Amkraut presents Between Home and Homeland: Youth Aliyah The Youth Aliyah is a Jewish organisation who saved 22,000 Jewish children by helping them to emigrate from the Third Reich to Palestine and other countries. Recha Freier, wife of a rabbi, started it in 1933. The idea was supported on the World Zionist Organization in Prague. from Nazi Germany is the true story of the organization "Youth Aliyah" ("aliyah aliyah (Hebrew; “ascending”) In Judaism, the honour, accorded to a worshiper, of being called up to read an assigned passage from the Torah at Sabbath morning services; or Jewish immigration to Israel. " referring to the Zionist goal of a homecoming for Jews in historic Israel) that strived to facilitate the emigration emigration: see immigration; migration. of Jews from Germany in the years leading up to World War II and the Holocaust. Between Home and Homeland provides a detailed history of Youth Aliyah's origins, its philosophies, its alliances and its detractors--thought it saved several thousand youth from the Holocaust, the movement's greatest obstacle may well have been simple human optimism that things would get better, even as Hitler consolidated power. A scholarly, sober, and in-depth historical chronicle. |
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