book chapter
Migration of Syrian Jews to Eretz Yisrael, 1880-1950
global community : the Jews from Aleppo, Syria • Detroit • Published In 2000 • Pages: 77-86, 199-200
By: Zenner, Walter P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Zenner discusses the migration of Syrian Jews to Israel from the mid-nineteenth century up to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. Early migrants were mostly rabbinic scholars who came to Jerusalem for sacred study. Their travel did not entail crossing an international border. Under the British-ruled Palestine Mandate, over 9,000 Syrian Jews, mostly Halebim from Aleppo, immigrated. Many of them were working class migrants. Zenner discusses some of the reasons for migrating, where migrants settled, the work they did, their political and religious involvement, and their degree of assimilation. The article includes 20 photos.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Religious and educational structures
- Settlement patterns
- External relations
- Political parties
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Israelis
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1840-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- Walter P. Zenner
- For bibliographical references see 17: Zenner
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00026755
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Israelis