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Finding Home And Homeland
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Author : Avinoam J. Patt
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2009
Finding Home And Homeland written by Avinoam J. Patt and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Although they represented only a small portion of all displaced persons after World War II, Jewish displaced persons in postwar Europe played a central role on the international diplomatic stage. In fact, the overwhelming Zionist enthusiasm of this group, particularly in the large segment of young adults among them, was vital to the diplomatic decisions that led to the creation of the state of Israel so soon after the war. In Finding Home and Homeland, Avinoam J. Patt examines the meaning and appeal of Zionism to young Jewish displaced persons and looks for the reasons for its success among Holocaust survivors. Patt argues that Zionism was highly successful in filling a positive function for young displaced persons in the aftermath of the Holocaust because it provided a secure environment for vocational training, education, rehabilitation, and a sense of family. One of the foremost expressions of Zionist affiliation on the part of surviving Jewish youths after the war was the choice to live in kibbutzim organized within displaced persons camps in Germany and Poland, or even on estates of former Nazi leaders. By the summer of 1947, there were close to 300 kibbutzim in the American zone of occupied Germany with over 15,000 members, as well as 40 agricultural training settlements (hakhsharot) with over 3,000 members. Ultimately, these young people would be called upon to assist the state of Israel in the fighting that broke out in 1948. Patt argues that for many of the youth who joined the kibbutzim of the Zionist youth movements and journeyed to Israel, it was the search for a new home that ultimately brought them to a new homeland. Finding Home and Homeland consults previously untapped sources created by young Holocaust survivors after the war and in so doing reflects the experiences of a highly resourceful, resilient, and dedicated group that was passionate about the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. Jewish studies, European history, and Israel studies scholars will appreciate the fresh perspective on the experiences of the Jewish displaced person population provided by this significant volume.
Finding Home
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Author : Gemma Stemley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-31
Finding Home written by Gemma Stemley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-31 with categories.
Finding Home: A Sentimental Journey is an account of my migration to a new place and a quest to determine whether the emotional content of fervor and affection for the land of my birth could be experienced elsewhere. Many years ago, in 1902, my great-grandmother had undertaken such a journey from her native land of Martinique to a Trinidad where she subsequently was married and raised a family. Often, we talked about where was home for the émigré and whether it was possible to experience home and homeland in two places. Was the notion of home to be confined only to the place of one's birth? A place infused with the memories of growing up and which accounts for the spiritual pull to return? This yearning to return she often described as the "homing instinct." Does homeland apply only to the land where one's parents are buried and the only place where one can obtain a birth certificate? Or is there such a concept as an adopted homeland? She wanted to know whether the homeland of her husband could be called her "adopted homeland." If so, can this give rise to feelings of disloyalty towards the land of her birth. She yearned to return to her beloved Martinique. But much to her chagrin, when she returned, she could not recognize the place. So much had changed over the years. My journey to the USA many years later was for a different reason but gave rise to similar questions and a determination to find the answers to my great-grandmother's quest. In essence, it turned out to be a journey that spanned many years, one which was ably guided by the multifaceted nature of love and commitment.
Dear Palestine
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Author : Shay Hazkani
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-13
Dear Palestine written by Shay Hazkani and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-13 with History categories.
In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab Liberation Army. With this book, the young men and women who made up these armies come to life through their letters home, writing about everything from daily life to nationalism, colonialism, race, and the character of their enemies. Shay Hazkani offers a new history of the 1948 War through these letters, focusing on the people caught up in the conflict and its transnational reverberations. Dear Palestine also examines how the architects of the conflict worked to influence and indoctrinate key ideologies in these ordinary soldiers, by examining battle orders, pamphlets, army magazines, and radio broadcasts. Through two narratives—the official and unofficial, the propaganda and the personal letters—Dear Palestine reveals the fissures between sanctioned nationalism and individual identity. This book reminds us that everyday people's fear, bravery, arrogance, cruelty, lies, and exaggerations are as important in history as the preoccupations of the elites.
The Hakka Search For A Homeland
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Author : Clyde Kiang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Hakka Search For A Homeland written by Clyde Kiang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
A House In The Homeland
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Author : Carel Bertram
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-19
A House In The Homeland written by Carel Bertram and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with History categories.
A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories. Survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea of returning to their homeland was unthinkable. But decades later, some children and grandchildren felt compelled to travel back, having heard stories of family wholeness in beloved homes and of cherished ancestral towns and villages once in Ottoman Armenia, today in the Republic of Turkey. Hoping to satisfy spiritual yearnings, this new generation called themselves pilgrims—and their journeys, pilgrimages. Carel Bertram joined scores of these pilgrims on over a dozen pilgrimages, and amassed accounts from hundreds more who made these journeys. In telling their stories, A House in the Homeland documents how pilgrims encountered the ancestral house, village, or town as both real and metaphorical centerpieces of family history. Bertram recounts the moving, restorative connections pilgrims made, and illuminates how the ancestral house, as a spiritual place, offers an opening to a wellspring of humanity in sites that might otherwise be defined solely by tragic loss. As an exploration of the powerful links between memory and place, house and homeland, rupture and continuity, these Armenian stories reflect the resilience of diaspora in the face of the savage reaches of trauma, separation, and exile in ways that each of us, whatever our history, can recognize.
Home Exile Homeland
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Author : Hamid Naficy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Home Exile Homeland written by Hamid Naficy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Art categories.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Finding Home
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Author : Angelica Jacob
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-11-25
Finding Home written by Angelica Jacob and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-25 with categories.
Foreword by Joseph Hodes, Ph.D., Author, "From India to Israel" "Angelica Jacob's beautifully written memoir, Finding Home, begins in 1970's Bombay and continues to 1980's Australia. It is the story of a young woman's journey to a new land, but it is also the story of an Indian Jewish community. Angelica is a member of the Bene Israel, Jews who have lived in India for 1,800 years. Since the creation of the state of Israel, the community has gotten increasingly smaller in India. This memoir weaves together what is uniquely Indian and universally Jewish, providing a fascinating account of a young woman's journey. ...A good historian can recount the changing of the guard, but only a poet or skilled writer can write words that leap off the page and grab one's emotions. This book does just that." - Joseph Hodes, Ph.D., Author, "From India to Israel"Assistant Professor, International Studies, Texas Tech University, USA.Finding Home - Memoir of a Jewish girl: Bombay to Sydney is based on themes of Jewish identity and home. The memoirs document the life of a young woman growing up in a once-flourishing Jewish community in post-colonial Bombay, who leaves the home of her birth to build a new life in Australia.The book germinated from a compelling need to record the unique milieu of the once-thriving, now vastly diminished Bene Israel of Bombay, believed to be one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, before the institutions and community completely disappear. The memoir unfolds as vignettes that poignantly, and with humor, capture intimate scenes of the religious and cultural life of one Jewish family in Bombay (now Mumbai). They chronicle the trajectory of a steadily dwindling congregation captured by the imagination of a Jewish homeland, and the impact this exodus to Israel had on those who remained. Some historical research and facts of the Jews of Bombay, their origins, past, place and cultural and religious life are interwoven into the narrative.The book offers a poignant message of inclusivity in these divisive times as we witness the rise of anti-Semitic and anti-immigration sentiments. It will appeal to the international Jewish diaspora as well as minorities and young people discovering their own identities in a multi-cultural world.About Angelica JacobAngelica Jacob is an author, writer, former staff reporter of The Australian, Australia's national broadsheet newspaper, editor, and entrepreneur. She is a published nonfiction co-author of "Discover the Gifts and Talents in Your Child", (Simon & Schuster, Sydney, 2000), a parenting book that equips parents and teachers with strategies, activities and skills to help children think and learn better and create an enriched home environment. She also co-edited "Gifted Children: The Challenge Continues" (NSW Association for Gifted and Talented Children, Sydney), a collection of papers and essays by Australian and international academic experts in the field of gifted education.Angelica has a Master's Degree in General Studies, with Distinction and Credits, from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, a Professional Certificate In Financial Planning with Distinction from UCLA - Extension and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from St Xavier's College, then affiliated to the University of Bombay. See: www.angelicajacob.com.
The Lost Children
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Author : Tara Zahra
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-23
The Lost Children written by Tara Zahra and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-23 with History categories.
During the Second World War, an unprecedented number of families were torn apart. As the Nazi empire crumbled, millions roamed the continent in search of their loved ones. The Lost Children tells the story of these families, and of the struggle to determine their fate. We see how the reconstruction of families quickly became synonymous with the survival of European civilization itself. Even as Allied officials and humanitarian organizations proclaimed a new era of individualist and internationalist values, Tara Zahra demonstrates that they defined the “best interests” of children in nationalist terms. Sovereign nations and families were seen as the key to the psychological rehabilitation of traumatized individuals and the peace and stability of Europe. Based on original research in German, French, Czech, Polish, and American archives, The Lost Children is a heartbreaking and mesmerizing story. It brings together the histories of eastern and western Europe, and traces the efforts of everyone—from Jewish Holocaust survivors to German refugees, from Communist officials to American social workers—to rebuild the lives of displaced children. It reveals that many seemingly timeless ideals of the family were actually conceived in the concentration camps, orphanages, and refugee camps of the Second World War, and shows how the process of reconstruction shaped Cold War ideologies and ideas about childhood and national identity. This riveting tale of families destroyed by war reverberates in the lost children of today’s wars and in the compelling issues of international adoption, human rights and humanitarianism, and refugee policies.
Longing For A Homeland
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Author : Dr. Lynn Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-06-15
Longing For A Homeland written by Dr. Lynn Anderson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with Religion categories.
In Longing for a Homeland, Lynn Anderson traces the wanderings and homesickness of the human race and the irresistible urge to find a place called "home." Home. It is the place we all long to be, yet in today's fragmented society, the concept of home is elusive for many people. It is the story of a journey toward fulfillment—a search to fill the God-shaped hole inside—that ends only when we discover that home is not a building, a geographical location, or a people—it is the love, security, and rest that can only be found in the presence of God. Join Anderson on the journey of a lifetime—a journey to the very heart of God—and experience the peace and joy that can found there. Come home—your life will never be the same.
Highland Homecomings
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Author : Paul Basu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-03-12
Highland Homecomings written by Paul Basu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-12 with Social Science categories.
The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness. With an interdisciplinary approach, speaking to current themes in anthropology, archaeology, history, historical geography, cultural studies, migration studies, tourism studies, Scottish studies, Paul Basu explores the journeys made to the Scottish Highlands and Islands to undertake genealogical research and seek out ancestral sites. Using an innovative methodological approach, Basu tracks journeys between imagined homelands and physical landscapes and argues that through these genealogical journeys, individuals are able to construct meaningful self-narratives from the ambiguities of their diasporic migrant histories, and recover their sense of home and self-identity. This is a significant contribution to popular and academic Scottish studies literature, particularly appealing to popular and academic audiences in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Scotland