Bridging myth and reality
The absorption of She'erit Hapletah in Eretz Yisrael, 1945–48
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10280549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith Tydor Baumel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 362-382 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-3206 • E-ISSN: 1743-7881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00263209708701157 |
| OpenAlex | W2024136427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
From the end of the Second World War in May 1945 until the founding of the State of Israel in May 1948, some 70,000 immigrants mainly Holocaust survivors set sail for the shores of Palestine.' Two-and-a-half thousand of the illegal immigrants successfully evaded the British man-hunt and entered the Promised Land; 4,500 passengers on the famous immigrant ship Exodus were returned to Germany; 52,000 illegal immigrants were deported to the Cyprus detention camps. The remaining 11,000 individuals were apprehended upon entry by the British rulers of Palestine and detained at Atlit until granted entry permits from the monthly quota assigned to Jewish immigrants wishing to make their home in what was known by Jews throughout the world as Eretz Yisrael.2 These 11,000 individuals belonged to the body known as the She'erit Hapletah the surviving remnant of European Jewry. They included concentration camp survivors, partisans, persons who had survived the war in hiding, Jews who survived by having adopted a false identity and those repatriated from the Soviet Union. The future of this body became a complex issue which merited much debate among leaders of world Jewry including leaders of the Jewish Yishuv (pre-State Jewish community) in Eretz Yisrael.3 During the past few years several research efforts have concentrated upon the absorption process of the She'erit Hapletah during the period of the Yishuv and the early years of the State of Israel.4 Among the issues examined are the politicization process of the She'erit Hapletah after their arrival and the means by which the abstract attitude of the She'erit Hapletah and their theories about the group's absorption were translated into practice. This absorption process was not a uniform one, as the She'erit Hapletah was not a uniform body but a variegated group changing its characteristics as time progressed. Until the autumn of 1945 most of the She'erit Hapletah in Germany was composed of concentration camp survivors who had been liberated upon German soil. In the autumn of that year partisans and survivors liberated in Poland began making their way into Germany. At a
Ancient history · Archaeology · Immigration · Judaism · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · The Holocaust · World War II · Zionism · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Middle East Politics and Society
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |