Jewish Refugee Lawyers

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-251
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Refugee

Japanese, Nazis and Jews: The Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, 1938-1945

1977 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 714
Author(s):  
Leona S. Forman ◽  
David Kranzler
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Community ◽  
Jewish Refugee

The Trickle before the Flood

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-222
Author(s):  
Adam Teller
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Jewish Refugees ◽  
Jewish Refugee ◽  
Polish Jews ◽  
Anti Jewish ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on the Jewish refugees in the Holy Roman Empire in 1648–1654. Though the vast majority of the Jews fleeing the Khmelnytsky uprising preferred to remain within the Commonwealth, there is evidence of Polish Jewish refugees in the empire from as early as 1649. There are no relevant data concerning Jewish refugees in Silesia before 1654, but it seems clear that Jewish refugees from Poland, together with displaced local Jews looking for a new home, were active in repopulating the towns in Bohemia and Moravia at that time. Since Jews had long been seen as important sources of income for their lords, there had often been power struggles for control over them between the monarch and the nobility. Thus, there was more going on than anti-Jewish legislation. In his orders of 1650, the king of Bohemia may have been continuing his efforts to put a brake on the nobility by depriving it of one of its sources of income: Jews. The chapter then considers the relationship between the Jewish refugee society and the local Jewish society. It also shows the limits of mercantilism, looking at the Polish Jews in Brandenburg.

JUSTICE FOR JEWS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES AND THE REBRANDING OF THE JEWISH REFUGEE

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shayna Zamkanei
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
Jewish Refugee ◽  
The World ◽  
World Organization

AbstractSince its founding in 2002, the group Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC) has appealed to governments, international organizations, and Jewish communities worldwide to recognize post-1948 Jewish emigrants from Arab countries as refugees. Yet prominent scholars, Israeli government officials, and Jewish political activists in Israel and the United States have traditionally opposed this designation. Why, then, have JJAC's efforts met with success? This article draws on the experiences of JJAC and its predecessor, the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries, as well as the claims of their critics, to argue that JJAC's accomplishments are due to the organization's ability to extricate the term “refugee” from a Zionist discursive context and to apply it within the framework of international law and human rights.

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