The Yemenite Children Affair

Ethnic Tensions, Immigration, and Public Records in Israel
Herausgeber: Inbari, Motti; Inbari, Mordecai

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Yemenite Children Affair was a tragic crisis in which about 1,000 children died between 1949 and 1954. Over the years, rumors spread that the kids were not dead, but kidnapped. This book tells the story from the health crisis to the investigations and the conspiracy theories that have developed ever since.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781666940701
• ISBN-10: 1666940704
• Artikelnr.: 72700266

Autorenporträt

Dr. Motti Inbari is professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Policy, Medicine, and Health Challenges during the Great Immigration to
Israel in the 1950s
Dorit Weiss and Shifra Shvarts
Chapter 2
A Continuous Tragedy: From "Operation Magic Carpet" to the "Yemenite
Children Affair"
Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Chapter 3
The Absorption Circumstances of the Yemenite Jewry in Israel and the
Historical Association to the "Missing Yemenite Children Affair"
Dov Levitan
Chapter 4
The Missing Children's Epidemiological Database: The Lights and Shadows of
Interlocking Historical Sources and Perspectives
Adiya Shubi and Yechiel Michael Barilan
Chapter 5
The Archive and the Public Discourse
Roy Peled
Chapter 6
The Documents Don't Matter: The Affair of the Yemenite Children and the
Archives
Yaacov Lozowick
Chapter 7
Testimonies at the Committees of Inquiry over the Years into the Yemenite
Children Affair and Insights for Oral History
Avi Picard
Chapter 8
The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory of the Yemenite Children
Affair: From Ultra-Orthodoxy, Meir Kahane, and Israel's Radical Left
Sariel Birnbaum
Chapter 9
Uzi Meshulam and the Yemenite Children Affair: Messianic Expectations,
Anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodoxy, and Israel's Radical Right
Motti Inbari
Chapter 10
The Israeli Left and the Yemenite Children Affair: How a Post-Colonial
Narrative Became an "Alternative Truth" in Radical Left Circles in Israel
Nirit Ben Ari