EVENTS and UPDATES
in honor of the publication of a new monograph by
Ziva Galili and Boris Morozov
EXILED TO PALESTINE
The Emigration of Zionist Convicts from the Soviet Union,
1924-1934
The public is cordially invited to attend a Symposium
Palestine as Exile
The Aliya of Prisoners of Zion
from the Soviet Union, 1924-1934
March 20, 2006
at 5:00 pm
Gilman Building 133
on the campus of Tel Aviv University
(in Hebrew)
PROGRAM
JUST PUBLISHED
CUMMINGS CENTER SERIES
Volume 21
Ziva Galili and Boris Morozov
This book tells
the largely unknown story of how Zionists imprisoned by the Soviet authorities
in the 1920s and 1930s were permitted to opt for a sentence of permanent exile
to Palestine. There, they made a significant contribution to building a Jewish
polity - forming the backbone of influential left-wing parties and the powerful
trade union movement.
Utilizing fresh
documents from archives opened after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well
as British and Zionist sources, the authors examine the means by which internal
power struggles and personal interventions in the uppermost echelons of the
Soviet leadership enabled the Zionists to disseminate their message and recruit
thousands of members before the massive arrests of the mid-1920s. They further
reveal the extent to which personal contacts between Zionists and Soviet
officials were vital in initiating and sustaining the phenomenon of exile to
Palestine and assess the crucial role of Anglo-Soviet cooperation in
facilitating the immigration of Zionist convicts.
A selection of
twenty-two translated and annotated documents from Israeli and Russian archival
collections is included. This volume will be of great interest to all students
of Jewish and Israeli history, Russian and Soviet studies and the history of
British rule in Palestine.
Ziva Galili is
Professor of Russian and Soviet History and Chair of the History Department at
Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is an authority on the Menshevik Party and
is currently at work on a study of Zionism in Soviet Russia in the 1920s.
Boris Morozov is
a Research Fellow at the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies.
From 1978 until 1984 he worked at the Institute for Documental Research and
Archives of the Central Soviet Archives (Glavarkhiv SSSR) in Moscow. He
specializes in the methodology of archival research and is the author of
Documents on
Soviet Jewish Emigration
(1999).
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