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Refugees or migrants pre-modern Jewish population movement

Title: Refugees or migrants [electronic resource] : pre-modern Jewish population movement / Robert Chazan.
Author: Chazan, Robert.
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

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1 online resource (vi, 262 pages)

Summary

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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Refugees or migrants (Online)

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Refugees or migrants (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.

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Contents

Perspectives. Traditional Jewish and Christian perspectives. Modern Perspectives. Innovative recent perspectives -- Jews as refugees. Governmental expulsions. Flight from governmental repression or popular violence -- Jews as migrants. Late antiquity. The Islamic world. Medieval Northern Europe. Movement eastward. Return westward.

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