num_pages: 296
description: Riding the Wave describes a dramatic chapter in the history of the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and specifically the Jewish Agency for Israel. Beginning in the late 1980s, the Jewish Agency began handling mass immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union whose demise signaled the fall of communism throughout the Eastern Bloc. This volume reveals the human drama of how Jewish Agency emissaries brought hundreds of thousands of Jews to Israel in an era of political instability and civil war. It describes how the Jewish Agency established an organizational network in diaspora communities that were closed off from the world Jewish polity for more than two generations. The book also documents "Operation Solomon" the historic flight of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel. It describes the Agency's work in preparing one of the world's most ancient Jewish communities for its aliyah.
language: English
title: Riding the Wave: The Jewish Agency's Role in the Mass Aliyah of Soviet and Ethiopian Jewry to Israel, 1987-1995
titlecomplete: Riding the Wave: The Jewish Agency's Role in the Mass Aliyah of Soviet and Ethiopian Jewry to Israel, 1987-1995
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Gefen Books