Overview

Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha'aliya, a central immigrant processing camp opened shortly after Israel became an independent state. This historic gateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversial barbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended this imposing barrier as a necessary quarantine measure - even as detained immigrants regularly defied it by crawling out of the camp and returning at will. Focusing on the conflicts and complications surrounding the medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life. Evocative and bold, Under Quarantine shows that we cannot fully understand Israel until we understand Shaar Ha'aliya. The gate of arrival for nearly half a million immigrants - a space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and welcoming - here was the country's crucible.

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Author:   Rhona Seidelman
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781978808379

ISBN 10:   1978808372
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   13 December 2019
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Cover PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsIntroduction: Barbed WireChapter 1. ConfinesChapter 2. StructureChapter 3. MeaningChapter 4. MemoryConclusion: Under QuarantineEpilogue: The Shaar Ha’aliya Memorial for Migrants and MedicineAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

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"""An important contribution to the ever-growing body of Jewish and Israeli studies literature, Jewish immigration studies, and health and immigration scholarship. In particular, it facilitates a broader multidimensional perspective on a specific locus in its historical as well as current contexts.""— AJS Review ""With uncompromising care and sensitivity, Rhona Seidelman unpacks the 'great story' of 'Aliah to the newly created Israel and puts the medical dimension of migration at the center. An essential chapter in the history of the Mizrahim.""   — Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, author of The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History ""Immigrants and Quarantine at Israel’s Founding with Rhona Seidelman""— Infectious Historians Podcast"

With uncompromising care and sensitivity, Rhona Seidelman unpacks the 'great story' of 'Aliah to the newly created Israel and puts the medical dimension of migration at the center. An essential chapter in the history of the Mizarhim

"""With uncompromising care and sensitivity, Rhona Seidelman unpacks the 'great story' of 'Aliah to the newly created Israel and puts the medical dimension of migration at the center. An essential chapter in the history of the Mizrahim.""    -- Zvi Ben-Dor Benite * author of The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History * ""An important contribution to the ever-growing body of Jewish and Israeli studies literature, Jewish immigration studies, and health and immigration scholarship. In particular, it facilitates a broader multidimensional perspective on a specific locus in its historical as well as current contexts."" * AJS Review * ""Immigrants and Quarantine at Israel’s Founding with Rhona Seidelman"" * Infectious Historians Podcast *"

Author Information

Rhona Seidelman is Assistant Professor of History and the Schusterman Chair of Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

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