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Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel
St. Martin's Press
January 2006
On Sale: December 28, 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0312315155
EAN: 9780312315153
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Non-Fiction
Why would American Jews not just materially successful but,
perhaps unique among the Jewish diaspora, truly socially
accepted, choose to leave material comfort and safety in the
United States for uncertainty and violence in Israel? This
is a fundamental question for American Jewry, and one that
Liel Leibovitz answers with resounding success in Aliya.
Leibovitz focuses on three sets of immigrants, from Israels
chaotic birth through its equally turbulent present. One
couple came to Palestine before Israel was even created, and
were present through its violent birth. One man was involved
in the Yom Kippur War. And one family of four made aliya in
2001, during the most recent unsettled phase of Israels
existence. Aliya is the powerful story of the relationship
of American Jews to Israel, both those who make the journey
and those who stay behind.
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