Ethnic Cleansing: Migration and Population Transfer and the Jewish Paradigm of Survival Amidst Displacement

Ethnic Cleansing is about the various forms of population displacement, from migration and ethnic cleansing to violent removals and expulsions, which may end up in genocide. It also shows how amidst displacement, the Jewish people have developed a millennial culture of survival. This volume covers the experience of population displacement in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, where the most notorious cases of migration and ethnic cleansing have happened under different regimes and in various cultures along the history of mankind. Today the author is also concerned with the plight of the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in Bangladesh, and the perennial Palestinian refugee problem. Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California, Berkeley. Now retired, he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the 1970s, and is the author of over 50 research books, a dozen edited books, and 100 scholarly articles about Islam. Born in Fes, Morocco, at fourteen, "I left my family when I could no longer bear the oppression of Jews in an Islamic country and moved to fledgling Israel. To this day, I consider that the wisest and most game-changing decision I took in my life."