Between exile and exodus : Argentinian Jewish immigration to Israel, 1948-1967 / Sebastian Klor ; translated by Lenn Schramm.

Between Exile and Exodus: Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948-1967 examines the case of the 16,500 Argentine Jewish immigrants who arrived in Israel during the first two decades of its existence (1948-1967). Based on a thorough investigation of various archives in Argentina and Israel, au...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klor, Sebastian (Author)
Corporate Author: Wayne State University. Press (Publisher)
Other Authors: Schramm, Lenn J. (Translator)
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Jews, Argentine > Israel > History > 20th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Jews, Argentine.
Israel > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Israel.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 256 pages : charts ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Argentina: host country of homeland?
  • The pintele yid and the economic calculation: the factors behind Argentinian Jewish immigration to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s
  • "We do not see the living individual": the crystallization of Israel's immigration policy
  • Politicization, selection, and bureaucratization: the organization of Argentinian Jewish immigration to Israel
  • "Marginal immigrants": the sociodemographics of the Argentinian Jewish immigration to Israel
  • Halutzim, capitalists, and those somewhere in the middle
  • Summary and conclusion: Argentinian Jewry as an example of an ethno-national diaspora.