Riding the Wave
Subtitle: The Jewish Agency's Role in the Mass Aliyah of Soviet and Ethiopian Jewry to Israel, 1987-1995
Publisher: Gefen Books
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789652292681
Subjects: Middle East - Israel; Religion; Social Science; Government policy; Judaism - General; Politics/International Relations; History; Emigration & Immigration; Emigration and immigration; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Jewish studies; Russia; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Jewish Agency for Israel; Ethiopia; Israel; Jews; Migrations; Russia (Federation)
Description: This book describes a dramatic chapter in the history of the Jewish people, the state of Israel, and the Jewish Agency, and how the Jewish Agency began handling mass aliyah from the former Soviet Union. This book also documents "Operation Solomon ", the historic flight of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel.