Prof. Gur Alroey

Department of Land of Israel Studies
E-mail:
galroey@univ.haifa.ac.il
 
The Mass Jewish Migration Database (MJMD) records are base on the applications of Jewish emigrants who applied to theJCA & ITO's information bureaux which were scattered all over the Pale.

Education

1997 - 2000 - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PhD.
1995 - 1997 - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M.A. 'cum laude' in History of Jewish People.
1995-1996 - The Hebrew University School of Education, Teaching Certificate.
1992-1995 - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, B.A. in History and History of Jewish People.


Academic Ranks

2002-2006 Lecturer in the department of Land of Israel Studies at University of Haifa
2006- Senior Lecturer in the department of Land of Israel Studies at University of Haifa

Publication

Ph.D.Dissertatio

The Jewish Immigration at the Beginning of the 20th Century: The Case of Plastine ("Second Aliya"), Thesis Submitted for Degree Doctor of Philosophy to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 2001.

Books

Immigrants: The Jewish Immigration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century, Jerusalem, Yad Ben Zvi, 2004 (253 pages)

reviews:
1. Prof. Zohar Shavit (Tel Aviv University) - Hebrew version , English version
2. Prof. Shlomo Deshen (Tel Aviv University): (PDF file)
3. Yehuda Zoref: Immigrants
The Quiet Revolution: The Jewish Emigration from the Russian Empire in the Early Twentieth Century, Jerusalem: Merkaz Shazar, Jerusalem 2008 (273 pages).

Reviews:
1. Dimitri Shumsky – Zion
2. Philip Hollander - AJH
3. Scott Ury - Israel
4. Lloyd Gartner - Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Seeking a Homeland: The Jewish Territorial Organization (ITO) and Its Struggle with the Zionist Movement, 1905-1925, The Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 2011 (315 pages)

Reviews:
1. Tom Segev - Hebrew version (http://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/1.1587067) English version (http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/the-makings-of-history-zionism-uganda-and-the-jews-1.400516)
2. Yemima Hovav - Segula Magazine

"Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear": Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century", Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2011 (228 pages)

Reviews:

1. Adam Rovner - Forward

2. Sonja Mekel's - Review

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

Published Articles:

1. Pioneers or Lost Souls? – The Issue of Suicide in the Second and the Third Aliya, Yahadut Zmanenu [Contemporary Jewry] (13), (1999), pp. 209-241. [in Hebrew].

2. The Composition of the Second Aliya Immigrants. Israel: History, Society, Culture, No. 2, (2002), pp. 33-55. [In Hebrew].

3. Aliya to Early Twentieth Century Palestine as an Immigrant Experience, Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 9.2, (2002), pp. 28-64.

4. Roslan – Was it the First Swallow that heralded the beginning of the Third Aliya? Cathedra - for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv, April (2003) (107), pp. 63-80. [in Hebrew]

5. Bureaucracy, Agents and Swindlers: Hardships Faced by Russian Jewish Emigrants in the Early Twentieth Century. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 19, (2003), pp. 214-231.

6. The Artisans' Labor Battalion: The Story of a Failed Ethos. Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, (13) (2003). pp. 255-275 [in Hebrew].

7. The Jewish Emigration from Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. Vol. 2 (2003). Pp. 112-131.

8. Feminine Pioneers who were not Laborers: Female Immigration to Palestine at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Cathedra - for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv. (2006), pp. 67-88 [in Hebrew].

9. People to Land and not Land to People: The Jewish Territorialism Organization (ITO), and the Jewish Emigration at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, Vol 14, (2004). pp. 537-564. [in Hebrew].

10. Where has the Ha-Shomer's Member Michael Av-Ner Shpal Gone? Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 14 (2004), pp. 625-642. [in Hebrew].

11. Looking for a Homeland: The Movement of the League for a Free Country (Freiland Ligue), the Yishuv, and the State of Israel, 1934-1956 Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 15 (2005), pp. 413-434. [in Hebrew].

12. Exiles in Their Own Homeland: The Case of the Jews of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo who were Expelled to the Lower Galilee, 1917-1918, Cathedra - for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv, pp. 135-160. [in Hebrew].

13. And I remained Alone in a Vast Land: Women in the Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe Europe. Jewish Social Studies, Vol 12, no 3 (Spring/Summer 2006), pp. 39-72

14. Galveston and Palestine: Immigration and Ideology in the Early Twentieth Century, American Jewish Archives, Vol LVI 2004, pp. 129-150.

15. Demographers in the Service of the Nation: Liebman Hersch, Jacob Lestschinsky, and the Start of Jewish Migration Research, Jewish History, vol 20, Number 3-4 (2006), pp. 265-282.

16. Patterns of Jewish Migration from the Russian Empire in the Early 20th Century. Jews in Russian and Eastern Europe Countries, Winter 2 (57) 2006, pp. 24-51.

17. Women’s Trade in the Jewish Society in the Early Twentieth Century and in Mendele Mokher Sefarim's Emek Habakha (Vale of Tears): A Literary-Historical Analysis, Criticism and Interpretation, Vol 40 (2008), pp. 59-37.

18. Out of the shtetl. In the Footsteps of Eastern European Jewish emigrants to America, 1900-1914, Leidschrift, Jaargang 21 Number 1 (2007), pp. 92-122.

19. Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1882-1914, Modern Judaism, Volume 28, Number 2 (2008), pp. 109-133.

20. Journey to New Palestine: the Zionist Expedition to East Africa and the aftermath of the Uganda Debate, Jewish Culture and History, Vol 10, No. 1 (Summer 2008) pp. 23-58.

21. The Servants of the Settlement or Vulgar Tyrants? A Hundred Years of the Hashomer Association: A Historical Perspective, Cathedra - for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv, April (2009) (133), pp. 77-104. [in Hebrew]

Reviews:
1. Meir Shalav – Hashomer1
2. Meir Shalev – Hashomer2
3. Tom Segev – Hashomer3

22. 'The Overlooked Migration' - The Attitude of Israeli Historiography to the Large Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe, Zion, Vol LXXIV (2009), pp. 267-286. [in Hebrew]

23. Information, Decision, and Migration: Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe in the Early Twentieth Century, Immigrants and Minorities Vol 29, No 1, March 2011, pp. 33-63.

24. 'The Link between the Existence of a People and National Awareness', in Studies on Jewish People, Identity and Nationality, (Editors) Naftali Rothenberg and Eliezer Schweid, Jerusalem 2008, pp.56-69.

Review:
Joseph Barnea: http://www.2all.co.il/web/Sites/ani-israeli/PAGE28.asp

25. Deserted Women in Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period and the Beginning of the Mandate Period, Israel: History, Society, Culture, Vol 15 (2009), pp. 93-116 [in Hebrew]

26.'Women in the Yishuv: Demographic Aspects', One Law for Men and Women: Women, Rights and Law during the British Mandate, Ed. Eyal Katvan, Margalit Shilo and Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Tel Aviv 2011, pp. 87-114 [in Hebrew]

27. Zionism without Zion? The Territorial Ideology and the Zionist Movement, 1882-1956, Jewish Social Studies, [Forthcoming in fall 2011]

Entries in Encyclopedia or Dictionary

1. The Jewish Migration to Overseas Countries. Bartal. I., (Ed.), Jewish Culture in a Secular Age (5,000 words). (Hebrew)
2. Economic Changes in the Jews’ Lives in Recent Two Hundred Years. Bartal. I., (Ed.), Jewish Culture in a Secular Age (5,000 words). (Hebrew)
3. Aliyah, Enzyklop?die j?discher Geschichte und Kultur (Ed.) Dan Diner (5,000 words)

Book Reviews
Margalit Shilo, The Gender Challenge: Women in the First Aliyot, Zion Vol 73, (2008), pp. 515-520

Boaz Neumann, Land and Desire in Early Zionism, Cathedra, 137 (2010), pp. 179-184


Other Publictions
1. Immigrants, Et-Mol, Vol. 29, No. 4 (174), March 2004. pp. 6-8.


Grants

2006-2007 - German-Israel Foundation (GIF) Young Scientists, Project Title: The German Steamship Companies and the Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe in the Early Twentieth Century

2004-2005 - YIVO Institue of Jewish Research, 7,500$

2003 - Israel Science Foundation (ISF), 30,000$ for 3 years on the subject: "The Mass Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe in Early Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study"

2003 - American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, 2300$