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Rather than perish in Nazi-occupied Poland, more than a million Jews escaped to the Soviet Union. There they suffered deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated", journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority lived out the war in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; some of them continued to Iran. The story of their suffering has rarely been told. Following in the footsteps of her father, one of a thousand refugee children who travelled to Iran and later to Palestine, Dekel fuses memoir with historical investigation in this account of the all-but-unknown Jewish refuge in Muslim lands. Along the way, Dekel reveals the complex global politics behind this journey, discusses refugee aid and hospitality, and traces the making of collective identities that have shaped the post-war world-the histories nations tell and those they forget.
Rather than perish in Nazi-occupied Poland, more than a million Jews escaped to the Soviet Union. There they suffered deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated", journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority lived out the war in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; some of them continued to Iran. The story of their suffering has rarely been told. Following in the footsteps of her father, one of a thousand refugee children who travelled to Iran and later to Palestine, Dekel fuses memoir with historical investigation in this account of the all-but-unknown Jewish refuge in Muslim lands. Along the way, Dekel reveals the complex global politics behind this journey, discusses refugee aid and hospitality, and traces the making of collective identities that have shaped the post-war world-the histories nations tell and those they forget.
The Universal Jew analyzes literary images of the Jewish nation
and the Jewish national subject at Zionism's formative moment. In a
series of original readings of late nineteenth-century texts--from
George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda "to Theodor Herzl's "Altneuland "to
the bildungsromane of Russian Hebrew and Yiddish writers--Mikhal
Dekel demonstrates the aesthetic and political function of literary
works in the making of early Zionist consciousness. More than half
a century before the foundation of the State of Israel and prior to
the establishment of the Zionist political movement, Zionism
emerges as an imaginary concept in literary texts that create,
facilitate, and naturalize the transition from Jewish-minority to
Jewish-majority culture. The transition occurs, Dekel argues,
mainly through the invention of male literary characters and
narrators who come to represent "exemplary" persons or "man in
general" for the emergent, still unformed national community.
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