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Book Review
Comparative/World
| Brian Amkraut. Between Home and Homeland: Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany. (Judaic Studies Series.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 232. $37.50.
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| Brian Amkraut tells the story of Youth Aliyah, a German Zionist-inspired Jewish organization that recruited teenagers for immigration to Palestine. From 1932 till the beginning of World War II, Youth Aliyah helped some five thousand young Jews to make this journey, supported, in the first few years of the Third Reich, by Nazi authorities. They landed in Palestinian settlement colonies, or kibbutzim, and helped build the social and economic foundations for the state of Israel. Amkraut draws much of his material from case studies, and it is unfortunate that he does not mention names. Does he have to protect citizens of present-day Israel because of a recurrence of world-wide antisemitism? |
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