Title: Naharyya - Moshewet haYekkim. Sippur Dor haMeyassdim 1935-1941.
Description: History of 1000 German Jewish Immigrants founding, living and working in an agricultural settlement in Palestine 1935-1941. Analysis of the economic, social and political problems and conflicts the settlers were confronted with and had to be solved, such as escape from Nazi-Germany, integration in a new social, work-related, climatic, cultural and language environment, problems with Zionist Institutions, conflicts with Arab neighbours, terrorist attempts, WW-II threat. The book issues a comprehensive documentary report about the years of crisis and its break-through. It bases on 120 interviews with the founders' families, a historical photo collection, and hundreds of original sources from Israeli and German archives.
Subjects: Nazi Germany, Eretz Israel, Emigration, Immigration, Redeployment from academic professions into agricultural work, Economy, Sociology, Colonization, Land settlement, German Jews, Jews, History
Places: Nahariyya, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
People: Selig Soskin, Joseph Loewy, Simon Reich, Heinrich Cohn
Time periods: 1935-1941