Land of Refuge: Immigration to Palestine, 1919-1927

After the First World War, tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Palestine. They went there not to found a Zionist state but primarily to seek refuge from the violence and persecution of the Russian Civil War and its aftermath. Fleeing to the United States was not an option due to heavily restrictive immigration laws enacted there in the early 1920s.

In Land of Refuge , the experiences of this generation of Jewish immigrants come vividly to life through a wealth of previously unstudied arc...