emigration – eSefarad

Ethnicity in Motion: Social Networks in the Emigration of Jews from Northern Morocco to Venezuela and Israel, 1860-2010 by Dr. Aviad Moreno

Dissertation Abstract During the second half of the twentieth century, most Jewish inhabitants of Arab countries left their countries of residence. Much of the popular discourse and scholarly narratives concerning this historic episode attributed the motives for mass migration to the rise of local nationalism, and to related political tensions …