The Jewish migration at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of
the twentieth centuries was one of the dramatic events that changed
the Jewish people in modern times. Millions of Jews sought to
escape the distressful conditions of their lives in Eastern Europe
and find a better future for themselves and their families
overseas. The vast majority of the Jewish migrants went to the
United States, and others, in smaller numbers, reached Argentina,
Canada, Australia, and South Africa.
From the beginning of the twentieth century until the First World
War, about 35,000 Jews reached Palestine. Because of this
difference in scale and because of the place the land of Israel
possesses in Jewish thought, historians and social scientists have
tended to apply different criteria to immigration, stressing the
uniqueness of Jewish immigration to Palestine and the importance of
the Zionist ideology as a central factor in that immigration. This
book questions this assumption, and presents a more complex picture
both of the causes of immigration to Palestine and of the mass of
immigrants who reached the port of Jaffa in the years 1904-1914.
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