The establishment of the State Israel in 1948 significantly reduced number Jewish displaced persons Italy's DP camps. However, it also marked beginning an unexpected movement some eight thousand Jews who, between and 1949, travelled to Italy from Libya, seeking international assistance resettle Israel. This article explores reasons for which Libya illegally attempted reach camps, role Zionist o...

In July 1950, Moroccan Rabbi Yahya Ben Harosh wrote a letter to his students chastising those exposed ultraOrthodox anti-Zionist influences for disparaging and denigrating Zionist leaders the founders of State Israel. This article discusses historical background letter, including ideological foundation rabbi’s vigorous protest: from position regarding messianic concept religious affirmation Zio...

This essay examines the study of Jewish history in Israel at the juncture of two currents: the ongoing expansion of an international community of Jewish studies scholars and the waning interest in the field in Israel itself. Mindful of the latter trend, it is easy to adopt a declensionist narrative, according to which the “Jerusalem School,” with its monolithic and Palestinocentric view of the ...

The aim of the paper is to explore the development of psychiatry in Palestine from two main perspectives: ethnicity and immigration. In Palestine the subject of immigration and psychiatry were highly complicated and had unique features. Thus, both psychiatrists and patients were immigrants who belonged to the same ethnic group sharing the same ideology and objectives. The examination will uncov...

Israel 11 2.1 Clarifying trends in developing a social ideology concerning aliyah and Diaspora Jewry 11 2.2 Clarifying trends in developing an educational methodology in second language instruction 13 2.2.1 The teaching method 13 2.2.2 Teaching personnel 17 2.2.3 The importance of the native language and the importance of a teacher who speaks his students' native language 19 2.3 Clarifying the ...

Abstract Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Israel, this article explores the politics of language choice as a part negotiation Haredi identity. Yiddish can be subtle resistance to Zionist project, which Israeli Hebrew is part. Certain Hasidic groups, and some very strict Lithuanian Jews, speak Yiddish, while others have adopted Hebrew. These choices illuminate ideologies these attitudes toward...