The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 19471949 (Cambridge Middle East Library)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 24, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521338899
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Refugees; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Middle East; Middle East - General; History / Middle East
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.