Jewish Immigration Causes

From Mandate to State: The Yishuv of 1919-1948 For 4,000 years, the Jewish people lived in exile without a nation to call their own. To compensate for this lack of an official homeland, the Jews concentrated on keeping their traditions alive by maintaining their religion, sense of community and social system. It was terribly important to the Jewish people of Palestine to have a place of refuge for their persecuted relatives throughout the world. Jewish immigrants who sought asylum from anti-Semitism came in four massive waves to Palestine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Then the subsequent attacks on Palestinian Jews came after the start of Britain 's implementation of the Balfour Declaration. Shortly after that, the mass genocide of Jews …show more content…
Those unbearable living conditions were the cause for the first large immigration back to the Jewish Holy Land in what was called the H 'aliyah Hreshona ( the first immigration) of 1882-1904. The new Russian settlers of Palestine, backed by the Baron D 'Rothschild, began creating agricultural villages known as the Moshavut (Jewish settlements). Unfortunately, anti-Semitism in Russia and Eastern Europe did not stop, but only became worse.
Between 1904 and 1914, this caused another wave of immigration, known as the H 'aliyah A 'Shniya (the second immigration). Much like the Russian settlers who came before them, the next group was composed of idealistic young pioneers who believed that working to improve the land of Palestine would be the revival of the Jewish people. Between 1919 and 1929 there were two more huge waves of immigration which were called H 'aliyah Shlishit ( the third immigration) and H 'aliyah Reviet ( the fourth immigration) respectively. These doubled the population of Jews in Palestine. The main causes for these waves were the economic crisis of Eastern Europe (mainly in Poland) and the enforcement of limited immigration to the …show more content…
They had previously represented the Jewish people in Palestine before the official creation of the Jewish agency in 1929. When the new Jewish Agency was formed in 1929, it was split half and half between Zionist Executive members and local Jewish magnates who were chosen for their desire to assist in building a Jewish refuge. One of these magnates was my great grandfather, Shmuel Ostashinski, who was the Mayor of the City of Rishon Le Zion at the time. As a child, I remember seeing pictures of all the early, elected magnates at my grandmother 's