The emigration of Jewish teenagers to Palestine to escape Hitler’s Germany. While the future darkened for the Jews of Germany as Hitler and his followers assumed and consolidated power in Germany, a number of efforts, at first random, uncoordinated, and often at cross-purposes with one another, were set underway both within and without German cities to facilitate the departure of Jews. Among them was the organization, “Youth Aliyah” (aliyah refers to the Zionist goal of a homecoming for...
Introduction : dealing with the Nazis111932 - the decisive year172Spreading the word323Emigration or welfare movement?604After the pogrom925Conflicts and resolutions129
\ From the Publisher“A first-rate book offering a highly focused and extensively researched analysis of Germany’s Youth Aliyah movement during the 1930s [and] filling lacunae in the scholarship of German Jewry and Zionism that has largely ignored the activities of this organization.”-- Keith H. Pickus, author of Constucting Modern Identities: Jewish University Students in Germany, 18151914 \ \