Refugees or Migrants

Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Judaism, History, Jewish, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Robert Chazan ISBN: 9780300240627
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: January 8, 2019
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Robert Chazan
ISBN: 9780300240627
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: January 8, 2019
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English

A leading historian argues that historically Jews were more often voluntary migrants than involuntary refugees†‹

For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained as the result of divine punishment, or as a response to maltreatment of Jews by majority populations, or as the result of Jews’ acceptance of their minority status perpetuating the maltreatment and forced migration. In this absorbing book, Robert Chazan explores these various accounts, and argues that Jewish population movement was in most cases voluntary, the result of a Jewish sense that there were alternatives available for making a better life.

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A leading historian argues that historically Jews were more often voluntary migrants than involuntary refugees†‹

For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained as the result of divine punishment, or as a response to maltreatment of Jews by majority populations, or as the result of Jews’ acceptance of their minority status perpetuating the maltreatment and forced migration. In this absorbing book, Robert Chazan explores these various accounts, and argues that Jewish population movement was in most cases voluntary, the result of a Jewish sense that there were alternatives available for making a better life.

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