Zionism in an Arab Country: Jews in Iraq in the 1940s

✍ Scribed by Esther Meir-Glitzenste

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Zionism in an Arab Country explores the relations between the Zionist establishment in Israel, and the Jewish community in Iraq. This relationship is centred on two organizations: a Zionist movement and a defense organization. By reviewing the activity of these organizations, Esther Meir-Glitzstein examines the decade preceding mass immigration, and reveals the political, societal, economic and cultural developments that shaped the history of Iraqi Jewry in this crucial period.Beyond the main focus on the sphere of Zionist activity, Meir-Glitzstein also uncovers the basic problems that shaped both the development of Iraqi Jewry in the 1940s and the policy of the Zionist establishment - trapped between Arab nationalism and Jewish nationalism. Finally, she elucidates the reasons and circumstances that led to the mass immigration of Jews from Iraq to the state of Israel.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedications......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
Foreword......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
1. Relations between the Jews, British and Arabs in Iraq in the 1940s......Page 25
2. The Reversal in Zionist Policy vis-à-vis the Jews of Islamic Countries......Page 47
3. National Encounter and Culture Clash: The Emissaries and the Jews of Iraq......Page 64
4. The Hehalutz Movement in Iraq......Page 79
5. Young Women in the Zionist Movement......Page 105
6. The Zionist Struggle for the Jewish Street......Page 119
7. Legal and Illegal Aliyah......Page 146
8. The Haganah......Page 161
9. A Community Trapped: Iraqi Jewry during the War of Independence......Page 175
10. The Zionist Movement in Iraq during the Persecutions......Page 194
11. From Emigration to Expulsion: The Mass Immigration of Iraqi Jewry to Israel......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 234
Index......Page 239