Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel by Orit Bashkin

Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel

Orit Bashkin

321 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

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Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents an...

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