TY - BOOK AU - Chazan, Robert Leon PY - 2018 DA - 2018// TI - Refugees or migrants: pre-modern Jewish population movement PB - Yale University Press CY - New Haven KW - Jews KW - Migration KW - History KW - Jewish diaspora AB - For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained as the result of divine punishment, or as a response to maltreatment of Jews by majority populations, or as the result of Jews' acceptance of their minority status perpetuating the maltreatment and forced migration. In this absorbing book, Robert Chazan explores these various accounts, and argues that Jewish population movement was in most cases voluntary, the result of a Jewish sense that there were alternatives available for making a better life SN - 9780300218572 LA - English N1 - Robert Chazan ID - 1043628622 ER -