Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel - Paperback
by Orit Bashkin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Orit BashkinSeries:Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies andPublish date:2017-08-15Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503602656ISBN-10:1503602656UPC:9781503602656Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:Israel & Palestine, IraqSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCGKJVTSMQ
Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were squalid and unsanitary. Basic necessities like water were in short supply, when they were available...
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503602656ISBN-10:1503602656UPC:9781503602656Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:Israel & Palestine, IraqSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCGKJVTSMQ
Orit Bashkin is Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford, 2012) and The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford, 2008).
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