Gur Alroey
Biographic Data
| ID | 695822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gur Alroey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gur |
| FAMILY NAME | Alroey |
| SIGNATURE | ALROEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2543-6623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Wandering Jew
The article seeks to provide a comparative perspective on Jewish emigration to the United States and to Mandatory Palestine during the period spanning World War I and the civil war in Ukraine through the closing of the United States borders to immigrants in 1924. The study consists of three sections. The first offers a typological explication of the concepts of emigration, aliyah, and refugeehood. The second part utilizes this typological discuss…
Land of Refuge
978-0393353723, 978-1250812124, 978-0812243642
Brothers in arms’
The novelty of this article is in the attempt to examine the pogroms from the point of view of the Jewish defenders and not of the victims or of the Ukrainian and Bolshevik establishment. Self-defense during the civil war in Ukraine played a historic role in the life of the Jewish towns. It stood guard and prevented killing and robbery. Helped in the restoration of economic and cultural life after the destruction of the community and its institut…
Migrating over troubled water
The paper focuses on the voyage to Palestine in the 1920s and examines it as a migration experience, different from the ideologically charged term Aliya. It looks at the arrangements and bureaucracy involved, from the stage of waiting in the European ports in Vienna and Trieste, until disembarking in Jaffa or Haifa. The article deals with the highly impressive bureaucracy of the Palestine Offices established by the Zionist Organization after Worl…
S hirli G ilbert . From Things Lost
In her book Between Uniqueness and Assimilation on German Jewry, the historian Shulamit Volkov discusses the exceptionally large number of German Jews who published autobiographies before and after World War II. However, Shirli Gilbert’s From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust is not based on autobiographies. Instead, it uses about two thousand letters, New Year’s greetings, and official documents from government minis…
Sexual violence, rape, and pogroms, 1903–1920
The article examines the pogroms from a gender perspective, with the focus on violence against Jewish women and especially rape and divided into four sections. The first part comes a critical examination of the primary documents and a consideration of several ethical questions that arise when addressing the phenomenon. The second part is a short review of the pogroms, from the start of the twentieth century through the end of the Russian Civil Wa…
Between the straits”
From 1919 to 1925, some 400,000 Jews from Eastern Europe emigrated to the United States and Palestine. The central thesis of this article is that the profile of the Jewish exodus before World War I differed from the postwar flow. Above all, Jews who had escaped the carnage of the Ukrainian Civil War (1918–1920) were more akin to refugees than immigrants. The first of this article’s three parts revolves around Jewish emigration during World War I …
The Zionist–Arab incident of Zarnuqa 1913
The article deals with the Zarnuqa incident which took place on 23 July 1913 between the colonists and guards of Rehovot, and the Arab rural population in their vicinity, an incident which is considered by historians as a milestone in Zionist–Arab relations in late Ottoman Palestine. The aim of the article is to present the various narratives available to researchers today, starting with the various Jewish sources, then examining the Arabic sourc…
Angolan Zion
This article traces the attempts in 1907–1913 by the Jewish Territorial Organization to set up an autonomous Jewish entity in West Africa. The Territorialists laid down three criteria for the choice of a territory: (1) A tract of land that must be large enough in size to allow for the absorption of mass Jewish migration. (2) A fertile territory that could provide a livelihood for the Jews who went there. (3) A sparsely populated territory so that…
Two Historiographies
The mass Jewish migration from Eastern Europe (1881-1914) was one of the seminal events in the life of the Jewish people in modern times. During this period, more than 2.5 million Jews migrated to countries across the sea. Two Jewish centers emerged as a result of the mass emigration from Eastern Europe: the State of Israel and North America. Despite the similar reasons for the development of the Jewish collectives in the United States and Israel…
An Unpromising Land
The Journey to Palestine
The aim of this chapter is to examine the journey to Palestine in a comparative perspective, beginning with the bureaucracy involved in the emigration process, tracing the journey by train to the ports of departure Odessa and Trieste, and ending with the sea voyage and arrival in the port of Jaffa.
Profile of the Immigrants
This chapter looks at the profile of immigrants to Palestine in the years 1905-1914 and their sociodemographic composition: their classification according to sex, age, occupation, capital, and reason for coming to the country. Unlike the chapters dealing with the inner world and outlook of immigrants, this one is based on quantitative data concerning immigrants who registered at the information bureau in Odessa a short time before they embarked o…
Conclusion
Immigration to Palestine and the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century led to the emergence of two Jewish entities of importance in the Jewish world: the State of Israel and the Jewish community of the United States. Despite the differences that can be found today between these two great Jewish communities, the historical circumstances that led to their formation were similar. It also falsifies our understanding of the great Jew…
Leaving Palestine
This chapter deals with those who left Palestine at the beginning of the twentieth century, describing a further stage--experienced by at least some immigrants--in the immigration process. Unlike immigrants who found work and began a new life in Palestine, those who left the country had to once more take up the wanderer's staff and begin the migratory process all over again.
Three Revolutions and the Pogroms
Three revolutions took place in the Russian Empire from the mid-nineteenth century onward: a demographic revolution; an industrial revolution, followed by urbanization; and a revolution in public transport. In addition to these three revolutions, there were persecutions by the authorities and pogroms that hindered the activities of the Jews and worsened their socioeconomic situation. But, as I discuss, these events were only a catalyst and not a …
Adaptation and Acclimatization in the New Land
This chapter examines the adaptation and acclimatization of immigrants to the new country after they left their ships and passed through customs at the port. The chapter takes a close look at the economic situation of immigrants. How did they make a living? What were the possibilities of employment? How much did they earn? What were their working conditions and how many hours a day did they work? What was the price of basic commodities during the…
Reaching a Decision
Mesopotamia – ‘The Promised Land’
At the beginning of the twentieth century attempts were made by the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Territorial Organization (JTO) to promote Jewish settlement in the region between the two rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris. The settlement plans never reached the practical stage, and the plan disappeared without a trace. One hundred thousand Jews from Russia were not sent as planned in the train from Odessa to Iraq, and Jewish settlements …
An Unpromising Land
Information, Decision, and Migration
This article discusses the importance of the availability of information in making the decision to emigrate. It argues that this had a major impact on Jewish emigration: the availability of knowledge alleviated the fear involved in moving to a new land and enabled hundreds of thousands to carry out their decision. The ramified activity of the information bureaux laid a foundation of data that became more and more sophisticated as the volume of em…
Journey to New Palestine
The Uganda Scheme was the subject of a bitter debate that split the Zionist movement. The expedition that set out on behalf of the Zionist Organization in December 1904 to explore the designated region in East Africa and submit its conclusions was supposed to lead to a final decision as to whether to accept or reject the British offer. This paper aims firstly to trace the history of the Zionist expedition to East Africa from the moment it set out…
Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1881-1914
Journal Article Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1881–1914 Get access Gur Alroey Gur Alroey University of Haifa [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 28, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages 109–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjn001 Published: 02 April 2008
Demographers in the service of the nation
Quot;And I Remained Alone in a Vast Land
Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to lands overseas from the start of the twentieth century until the outbreak of World War I encompassed more than 1.5 million Jews seeking to flee the unbearable socioeconomic conditions that were their lot in the Russian Empire. Hundreds of thousands of these migrants were women and children who left to join their husbands and fathers already in the destination countries. This article traces the multifaceted…
An Unpromising Land
And I Remained Alone in a Vast Land
Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to lands overseas from the start of the twentieth century until the outbreak of World War I encompassed more than 1.5 million Jews seeking to flee the unbearable socioeconomic conditions that were their lot in the Russian Empire. Hundreds of thousands of these migrants were women and children who left to join their husbands and fathers already in the destination countries. This article traces the multifaceted…
Journey to Early-Twentieth-Century Palestine as a Jewish Immigrant Experience
In the years 1904-14, about 35,000 immigrants reached Palestine and, according to the historians, initiated a new period in the history ofJewish settlement in the land of Israel known as the Second Aliyah. In fact, the immigrants who landed on the shores of Jaffa in those years were part of a general wave of immigration that engulfed the Jews of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires from 1904 onward. This upsurge, the third great wave of immig…
Two Historiographies
The mass Jewish migration from Eastern Europe (1881-1914) was one of the seminal events in the life of the Jewish people in modern times. During this period, more than 2.5 million Jews migrated to countries across the sea. Two Jewish centers emerged as a result of the mass emigration from Eastern Europe: the State of Israel and North America. Despite the similar reasons for the development of the Jewish collectives in the United States and Israel…
Mesopotamia – ‘The Promised Land’
At the beginning of the twentieth century attempts were made by the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Territorial Organization (JTO) to promote Jewish settlement in the region between the two rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris. The settlement plans never reached the practical stage, and the plan disappeared without a trace. One hundred thousand Jews from Russia were not sent as planned in the train from Odessa to Iraq, and Jewish settlements …
Journey to New Palestine
The Uganda Scheme was the subject of a bitter debate that split the Zionist movement. The expedition that set out on behalf of the Zionist Organization in December 1904 to explore the designated region in East Africa and submit its conclusions was supposed to lead to a final decision as to whether to accept or reject the British offer. This paper aims firstly to trace the history of the Zionist expedition to East Africa from the moment it set out…
Between the straits”
From 1919 to 1925, some 400,000 Jews from Eastern Europe emigrated to the United States and Palestine. The central thesis of this article is that the profile of the Jewish exodus before World War I differed from the postwar flow. Above all, Jews who had escaped the carnage of the Ukrainian Civil War (1918–1920) were more akin to refugees than immigrants. The first of this article’s three parts revolves around Jewish emigration during World War I …
Angolan Zion
This article traces the attempts in 1907–1913 by the Jewish Territorial Organization to set up an autonomous Jewish entity in West Africa. The Territorialists laid down three criteria for the choice of a territory: (1) A tract of land that must be large enough in size to allow for the absorption of mass Jewish migration. (2) A fertile territory that could provide a livelihood for the Jews who went there. (3) A sparsely populated territory so that…
Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1881-1914
Journal Article Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1881–1914 Get access Gur Alroey Gur Alroey University of Haifa [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 28, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages 109–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjn001 Published: 02 April 2008
Quot;And I Remained Alone in a Vast Land
Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to lands overseas from the start of the twentieth century until the outbreak of World War I encompassed more than 1.5 million Jews seeking to flee the unbearable socioeconomic conditions that were their lot in the Russian Empire. Hundreds of thousands of these migrants were women and children who left to join their husbands and fathers already in the destination countries. This article traces the multifaceted…
The Jewish emigration from palestine in the early twentieth century
Rabinovitch boarded the ship with all the others who were leaving the land of Israel because the land didn't absorb them, so they leave the Land and return outside the Land. Some are glad to get away from the suffering of the Land and some are sad for they don't know what they will do outside the Land. When they ascended to the Land, they knew why they ascended, when they descend and go outside the Land, they don't know why they are descending
Journey to Early-Twentieth-Century Palestine as a Jewish Immigrant Experience
In the years 1904-14, about 35,000 immigrants reached Palestine and, according to the historians, initiated a new period in the history ofJewish settlement in the land of Israel known as the Second Aliyah. In fact, the immigrants who landed on the shores of Jaffa in those years were part of a general wave of immigration that engulfed the Jews of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires from 1904 onward. This upsurge, the third great wave of immig…
Demographers in the service of the nation
Quot;And I Remained Alone in a Vast Land
Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to lands overseas from the start of the twentieth century until the outbreak of World War I encompassed more than 1.5 million Jews seeking to flee the unbearable socioeconomic conditions that were their lot in the Russian Empire. Hundreds of thousands of these migrants were women and children who left to join their husbands and fathers already in the destination countries. This article traces the multifaceted…
And I Remained Alone in a Vast Land
Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to lands overseas from the start of the twentieth century until the outbreak of World War I encompassed more than 1.5 million Jews seeking to flee the unbearable socioeconomic conditions that were their lot in the Russian Empire. Hundreds of thousands of these migrants were women and children who left to join their husbands and fathers already in the destination countries. This article traces the multifaceted…
Journey to New Palestine
The Uganda Scheme was the subject of a bitter debate that split the Zionist movement. The expedition that set out on behalf of the Zionist Organization in December 1904 to explore the designated region in East Africa and submit its conclusions was supposed to lead to a final decision as to whether to accept or reject the British offer. This paper aims firstly to trace the history of the Zionist expedition to East Africa from the moment it set out…
Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1881-1914
Journal Article Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1881–1914 Get access Gur Alroey Gur Alroey University of Haifa [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 28, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages 109–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjn001 Published: 02 April 2008
Information, Decision, and Migration
This article discusses the importance of the availability of information in making the decision to emigrate. It argues that this had a major impact on Jewish emigration: the availability of knowledge alleviated the fear involved in moving to a new land and enabled hundreds of thousands to carry out their decision. The ramified activity of the information bureaux laid a foundation of data that became more and more sophisticated as the volume of em…
An Unpromising Land
The Journey to Palestine
The aim of this chapter is to examine the journey to Palestine in a comparative perspective, beginning with the bureaucracy involved in the emigration process, tracing the journey by train to the ports of departure Odessa and Trieste, and ending with the sea voyage and arrival in the port of Jaffa.
Profile of the Immigrants
This chapter looks at the profile of immigrants to Palestine in the years 1905-1914 and their sociodemographic composition: their classification according to sex, age, occupation, capital, and reason for coming to the country. Unlike the chapters dealing with the inner world and outlook of immigrants, this one is based on quantitative data concerning immigrants who registered at the information bureau in Odessa a short time before they embarked o…
Conclusion
Immigration to Palestine and the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century led to the emergence of two Jewish entities of importance in the Jewish world: the State of Israel and the Jewish community of the United States. Despite the differences that can be found today between these two great Jewish communities, the historical circumstances that led to their formation were similar. It also falsifies our understanding of the great Jew…
Leaving Palestine
This chapter deals with those who left Palestine at the beginning of the twentieth century, describing a further stage--experienced by at least some immigrants--in the immigration process. Unlike immigrants who found work and began a new life in Palestine, those who left the country had to once more take up the wanderer's staff and begin the migratory process all over again.
Three Revolutions and the Pogroms
Three revolutions took place in the Russian Empire from the mid-nineteenth century onward: a demographic revolution; an industrial revolution, followed by urbanization; and a revolution in public transport. In addition to these three revolutions, there were persecutions by the authorities and pogroms that hindered the activities of the Jews and worsened their socioeconomic situation. But, as I discuss, these events were only a catalyst and not a …
Adaptation and Acclimatization in the New Land
This chapter examines the adaptation and acclimatization of immigrants to the new country after they left their ships and passed through customs at the port. The chapter takes a close look at the economic situation of immigrants. How did they make a living? What were the possibilities of employment? How much did they earn? What were their working conditions and how many hours a day did they work? What was the price of basic commodities during the…
Reaching a Decision
Mesopotamia – ‘The Promised Land’
At the beginning of the twentieth century attempts were made by the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Territorial Organization (JTO) to promote Jewish settlement in the region between the two rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris. The settlement plans never reached the practical stage, and the plan disappeared without a trace. One hundred thousand Jews from Russia were not sent as planned in the train from Odessa to Iraq, and Jewish settlements …
An Unpromising Land
Angolan Zion
This article traces the attempts in 1907–1913 by the Jewish Territorial Organization to set up an autonomous Jewish entity in West Africa. The Territorialists laid down three criteria for the choice of a territory: (1) A tract of land that must be large enough in size to allow for the absorption of mass Jewish migration. (2) A fertile territory that could provide a livelihood for the Jews who went there. (3) A sparsely populated territory so that…
Two Historiographies
The mass Jewish migration from Eastern Europe (1881-1914) was one of the seminal events in the life of the Jewish people in modern times. During this period, more than 2.5 million Jews migrated to countries across the sea. Two Jewish centers emerged as a result of the mass emigration from Eastern Europe: the State of Israel and North America. Despite the similar reasons for the development of the Jewish collectives in the United States and Israel…
The Zionist–Arab incident of Zarnuqa 1913
The article deals with the Zarnuqa incident which took place on 23 July 1913 between the colonists and guards of Rehovot, and the Arab rural population in their vicinity, an incident which is considered by historians as a milestone in Zionist–Arab relations in late Ottoman Palestine. The aim of the article is to present the various narratives available to researchers today, starting with the various Jewish sources, then examining the Arabic sourc…
Sexual violence, rape, and pogroms, 1903–1920
The article examines the pogroms from a gender perspective, with the focus on violence against Jewish women and especially rape and divided into four sections. The first part comes a critical examination of the primary documents and a consideration of several ethical questions that arise when addressing the phenomenon. The second part is a short review of the pogroms, from the start of the twentieth century through the end of the Russian Civil Wa…
Between the straits”
From 1919 to 1925, some 400,000 Jews from Eastern Europe emigrated to the United States and Palestine. The central thesis of this article is that the profile of the Jewish exodus before World War I differed from the postwar flow. Above all, Jews who had escaped the carnage of the Ukrainian Civil War (1918–1920) were more akin to refugees than immigrants. The first of this article’s three parts revolves around Jewish emigration during World War I …
S hirli G ilbert . From Things Lost
In her book Between Uniqueness and Assimilation on German Jewry, the historian Shulamit Volkov discusses the exceptionally large number of German Jews who published autobiographies before and after World War II. However, Shirli Gilbert’s From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust is not based on autobiographies. Instead, it uses about two thousand letters, New Year’s greetings, and official documents from government minis…
Migrating over troubled water
The paper focuses on the voyage to Palestine in the 1920s and examines it as a migration experience, different from the ideologically charged term Aliya. It looks at the arrangements and bureaucracy involved, from the stage of waiting in the European ports in Vienna and Trieste, until disembarking in Jaffa or Haifa. The article deals with the highly impressive bureaucracy of the Palestine Offices established by the Zionist Organization after Worl…
History (20 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (20 works) · Archaeology (18 works) · Judaism (15 works) · History (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Ancient history (13 works) · Palestine (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Immigration (9 works)