Orit Bashkin, From Palestinian Village to an Iraqi Transit Camp
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesEvent Description: Over 130,000 Iraqi Jews arrived in Israel during the 1950s; they were forced to settle in transit camps where they lived in horrendous poverty. Previous scholarship on this migration focused on the state and its actions towards, and representations of, these newcomers. Later generations of scholars highlighted the resistance of Mizrahi men to […]