A playlist from The Jewish Story
The Great Aliyah: Absorbing the Exiles After 1948
Episode 1 of 2
Mass Immigration and Ingathering the Exiles - part I
March 27, 2019 · 42 min · Episode page →
illustration attribution: By Government Press Office (Israel), CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22807003 Rav Mike Jewish History Kibutz Galuyot Ben Gurion
About this playlist
The new state doubles its population in a few short years. Two episodes on what a Jewish state is for, and what it took to bring the exiles home.
Where this sits in the story
1948–1952 · 1 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
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