Between Home and Homeland

Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8173-5939-3
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 157 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Reihe: Judaic Studies Series

The emigration of Jewish teenagers to Palestine to escape Hitler's Germany.

As Hitler and his followers consolidated power in Germany, a number of efforts were set in motion, both within and without German cities, to facilitate the departure of Jews. Among them was the organization, Youth Aliyah-aliyah is the term for the Zionist goal of a homecoming for Jews in historic Israel. Although the youths saved by Youth Aliyah were but a small percentage of the Jewish population, the program is widely celebrated by those who seek examples of Jewish agency and of attempts to resist the coming horror.

To this day, Youth Aliyah is considered by Israelis as a major contributor to the foundation of a Jewish presence leading to the modern state of Israel. Brian Amkraut details the story of the organization from its origins through its alliances and antagonisms with other Jewish organizations, and the challenges that vexed its efforts from every side, perhaps the greatest being sheer human naiveté ("surely things will get better").

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Dealing with the Nazis
- 1. 1932—The Decisive Year
- 2. Spreading the Word
- 3. Emigration or Welfare Movement?
- 4. After the Pogrom
- 5. Conflicts and Resolutions
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Amkraut is executive director of the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University.