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Against Many Odds:Immigration of Jewish Women to Palestine between the World Wars
| Jewish women wishing to immigrate to Palestine during the 1920s and the 1930s were hindered by a combination of limitations and requirements. In addition to the restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine in general, women were discriminated against on the basis of gender, age, marital status and economic means. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse how this situation came about and to ponder its effect on the status of women in the Yishuv, the Jewish community in pre-1948 Palestine.
The claim put forth is that the discrimination against women was a result of the concurrence of the British Mandatory immigration laws and the ideology and interests of the Zionist Organization. A further claim is that most of the women who settled in Palestine between the World Wars were in a disadvantageous position from the very beginning, and that this state of affairs left a deep and long lasting imprint on their status as second-rate members of the Yishuv.
The wide spread phenomenon of ficticious marriage: its causes, practice and the reaction of the Zionist leadership to it will serve as a case study.
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