Ethnic and gender identity of Iraqi women immigrants in the kibbutz in the 1940s

Esther Meir-Glitzenstein

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1k03srv.10

Ethnic and gender identity of Iraqi women immigrants in the kibbutz in the 1940s

Esther Meir-Glitzenstein

The Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism

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Abstract

In the 1940s, a few thousand Iraqi immigrants took their ﬁrst steps in Eretz Israel among the settlements of Ha-Kibbutz ha-Me’uhad (United KibIbutz movement). For a large part of these olim, the kibbutz was only a way station before they moved on to the city; but there were others among them, mostly individuals who had been members of the Hehalutz Zionist movement in Iraq, who wanted to make their home in the kibbutz and even hoped to see large-scale immigration absorbed into it. These olim joined the kibbutz within the framework of some twenty settlement training groups (gar’inei hakhsharot) and...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel
Subtitle of host publication	Life History, Politics, and Culture
Editors	Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, Galit Hasan-Rokem
Publisher	Brandeis University Press
Pages	83-99
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781584658085
ISBN (Print)	9781584657026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k03srv.10
State	Published - 1 Dec 2009

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