The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 19471949 (Cambridge Middle East Library)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 25, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521330282
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; History: World; History; History - General History; Middle East; General; Social Services & Welfare; History / Middle East; Middle East - General; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; Palestinian Arabs; Refugees; Refugees, Palestinian Arab
First sentence: Modern Zionism began with the prophetic-programmatic writings of Moses Hess, Judah Alkalai, Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Theodore Herzl and the immigration from Russia to Ottoman-ruled Palestine in the 1880s of Jews dedicated to rebuilding a national home for the Jewish people on their ancient land.