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Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
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Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
Immigration & RefugeesIraq HistoryIsrael & Palestine History
ISBN13: 9781503602656
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2017
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 at all. Rather than returning to a homeland as native sons, Iraqi Jews were newcomers in a foreign place.
Impossible Exodus tells the story of these Iraqi Jews' first decades in Israel. Faced with ill treatment and discrimination from state officials, Iraqi Jews resisted: they joined Israeli political parties, demonstrated in the streets, and fought for the education of their children, leading a civil rights struggle whose legacy continues to influence contemporary debates in Israel. Orit Bashkin sheds light on their everyday lives and their determination in a new country, uncovering their long, painful transformation from Iraqi to Israeli. In doing so, she shares the resilience and humanity of a community whose story has yet to be told.
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