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Book SynopsisThis volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews’ often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch in a new land. Their experiences and hardships from country to country and from one community of migrants to another are analyzed here. The mass exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries is also addressed to provide a necessary and broader insight into how those challenges were met, as both migrations were a result of persecution, as well as discrimination.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Diverging groups of Jewish Displaced Persons Manfred Gerstenfeld and Françoise S. Ouzan PART ONE: THE PLIGHT OF THE UPROOTED: SOCIAL AND LEGAL RESPONSES Reflections on the Multinational Geography of Jews after World War II Sergio DellaPergola The Law of Return: A National Solution to an International Issue, 1945–1967 Jacques Amar Healthcare Services for Holocaust Survivors in Post-war Austria, 1945–1953: A Pattern of Jewish Solidarity Ada Schein PART TWO: POST-WAR JEWISH MIGRATION AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA Dilemmas of Minority Politics: Jewish Migrants in Post-war Czechoslovakia and Poland Kateřina Čapková The Post-war Czech-Jewish Leadership and the Issue of Jewish Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1945–1950) Ján Laniček PART THREE: POST-WAR RECONSTITUTION OF JEWISH COMMUNAL LIFE AND DYNAMICS OF IDENTITIES Life during the Camps and After: Displacement and Rehabilitation of the Young Survivors Izio Rosenman American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors’ Return to Jewish Communal Life (1945–1952) Françoise S. Ouzan A Forgotten Post-war Jewish Migration: East European Jewish Refugees and Immigrants in France, 1946–1947 David Weinberg The Post-war Renewal of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands Manfred Gerstenfeld PART FOUR: EMIGRATING TO ISRAEL FROM EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST Reasons for Emigration of the Jews from Poland in 1956–1959 Ewa Węgrzyn Memories of a Forgotten People: A Conflict of Expectations Shmuel Trigano The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956–1957: The Historiographical Problems Yigal Bin-Nun Not Just a Language Barrier: Israel’s Media and Communication with New Immigrants in the 1950s Rafi Mann
