From Babylon to Jerusalem

Studies and Sources on Zionism and Aliya from Iraq

Edited by Dr.Zvi Yehuda
Tel-Aviv, Iraqi Jews Traditional Culture Center, 1980
14x22 cm, 229 p.
(Hebrew, with table of contents in English)

CONTENTS

Preface
Part One: Aliya and Ha'apala from Iraq


Zvi Yehuda Aliya from Iraq in the Early 1920s: Survey and Problematics
Shaul Sehaiq The First Group of Halutzim from Iraq: the "Raanana Group"
Shneor Israel Ha'apala from Iraq in the 1940s
Shlomo Hillel Developments Leading to the Mass Aliya from Iraq
Mordechai Ben-Porat "Operation Ezra and Nehemiah"
Itzhak Bezalel Background of the Aliya from Iraq: 1970-1973

Part Two: The Hehalutz Underground Movement in Iraq

Yosef Meir The Establishment and Structure of the Hehaluz Underground Movement in Iraq
Shalom Darwish Relations Between Communal Institutions and
the Hehalutz Underground Movement in Baghdad
Emmanuel Nahtomi The Educational Activity of the Hehalutz
Underground Movement in Iraq
Eli Sharon The "Hagana" in Iraq
Rina Dloomy "Hehalutz Hatza'ir" and the Participation of
Women in the Hehalutz Underground Movement in Iraq
Oved Yosef Memoirs of a "Prisoner of Zion" in Iraq

Part Three: Selected Documents, Introduced and Annotated by Zvi Yehuda