From India to Israel
Subtitle: Identity, Immigration, and the Struggle for Religious Equality
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780773543409
Subjects: Jews, india; Jews, identity; Freedom of religion; India, emigration and immigration; Israel, emigration and immigration; India, ethnic relations; Israel, ethnic relations
Description: Between May 1948 and December 1951, Israel received approximately 684,000 immigrants from across the globe. This book examines Israel's first decades through the perspective of an Indian Jewish community, the Bene Israel, who would go on to play an important role in the creation of the state.