TY - BOOK ID - 85471923 TI - Jews on route to Palestine 1934-1944 : sketches from the history of Aliyah Bet - clandestine Jewish immigration AU - Patek, Artur AU - Torr, Guy Russell AU - Williams, Timothy PY - 2012 SN - 8323387575 PB - Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Jews KW - Zionism KW - Zionist movement KW - Jewish nationalism KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Restoration KW - Palestine KW - Holy Land KW - Emigration and immigration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85471923 AB - The term Aliyah Bet refers to illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine in the period of the British Mandate for Palestine; it constituted one of the most effective methods of struggle of the Zionist movement for the sovereign state of Israel. Its history is marked, on the one hand, by clandestine activities and spectacular operations, and on the other, by dramatic events (catastrophes of sea liners carrying immigrants, deportations of refugees). The book discusses events without which one cannot understand the contemporary Israel. ER -