Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction-Diverging Groups of Jewish Displaced Persons -- Part 1 The Plight of the Uprooted: Social and Legal Responses -- Reflections on the Multinational Geography of Jews After World War II -- The Law of Return: A National Solution to an International Issue, 1945-1967 -- Health Care Services for Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Austria, 1945-1953: A Pattern of Jewish Solidarity -- Part 2 Postwar Jewish Migration and Czechoslovakia -- Dilemmas of Minority Politics: Jewish Migrants in Postwar Czechoslovakia and Poland -- The Postwar Czech-Jewish Leadership and the Issue of Jewish Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1945-1950) -- Part 3 Postwar Reconstitution of Jewish Communal Life and Dynamics of Identities -- Life during the Camps and After: Displacement and Rehabilitation of the Young Survivors -- American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors' Return to Jewish Communal Life (1945-1952) -- A Forgotten Postwar Jewish Migration: East European Jewish Refugees and Immigrants in France, 1946-1947 -- The Postwar Renewal of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands -- Part 4 Emigrating to Israel from Europe and the Middle East -- Reasons for Emigration of the Jews from Poland in 1956-1959 -- Memories of a Forgotten People: A Conflict of Expectations -- The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956-1967: The Historiographical Problems -- Not Just a Language Barrier: Israel's Media and Communication with New Immigrants in the 1950s -- Index.

This volume focuses on the postwar rehabilitation of Jews returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch elsewhere. Migrant Holocaust survivors and Jews from Arab and Muslim countries had to rebuild their lives after suffering extreme persecution.

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