Under Quarantine : : Immigrants and Disease at Israel's Gate / / Rhona Seidelman.

Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha'aliya, a central immigrant processing camp opened shortly after Israel became an independent state. This historic gateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversial barbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended this imposing b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]
©2020
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 9 b-w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Barbed Wire
  • 1. Confines
  • 2. Structure
  • 3. Meaning
  • 4. Memory
  • Conclusion: Under Quarantine
  • Epilogue: The Shaar Ha'aliya Memorial for Migrants and Medicine
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index