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Between home and homeland : youth aliyah from Nazi Germany / Brian Amkraut.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amkraut, Brian, 1969-
- Series:
- Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
- Judaic studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Germany--Migrations.
- Jews.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Zionism--Germany--History--20th century.
- Zionism.
- Jews--Germany--Politics and government.
- Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Germany.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The emigration of Jewish teenagers to Palestine to escape Hitler's Germany. While the future darkened for the Jews of Germany as Hitler and his followers assumed and consolidated power in Germany, a number of efforts, at first random, uncoordinated, and often at cross-purposes with one another, were set underway both within and without German cities to facilitate the departure of Jews. Among them was the organization, "Youth Aliyah" (aliyah refers to the Zionist goal of a homecoming for Jews in historic Israel). To this day Youth Aliyah is considered by Israelis as
- Contents:
- 1932 : the decisive year
- Spreading the word
- Emigration or welfare movement?
- After the pogrom
- Conflicts and resolutions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8162-7
- OCLC:
- 424521060
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