Refugees or Migrants : Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement Hardback
by Robert Chazan
Hardback
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A leading historian argues that historically Jews were more often voluntary migrants than involuntary refugees​ For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience.
This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained by pre-modern Jews and Christians as divine punishment, by some modern non-Jews as the result of Jewish harmfulness, by some modern Jews as fostered by Christian anti-Jewish imagery, and by other modern Jews as caused by misguided Jewish acceptance of minority status. Â In this absorbing book, Robert Chazan explores these various perspectives and argues that pre-modern Jewish population movement was in most cases voluntary, the result of a sense among Jews that there were alternatives available for making a better life elsewhere.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2019
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- ISBN:9780300218572
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300218572
