Aliyah

Aliyah is a Hebrew term, literally meaning "ascent", widely used mean Jewish immigration to Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration away from Israel, is called yerida.

Aliyah is an important Jewish cultural concept and is enshrined in Israeli laws that theoretically permit the immigration of any Jew to Israel.

In Zionist history, different waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine, beginning with the arrival of the Biluim from Russia in 1882, are known at aliyot (the plural of aliyah). These aliyot are often categorized by date and the country of origin of the immigrants.

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Aliyot

• First Aliyah (1882-1903) from Russia, Yemen. Total: 15,000. Founded first agricultural settlements.
• Second Aliyah (1904-1914) from Russia. Total 40,000 (about half left). Founded Tel Aviv and first kibbutz.
• Third Aliyah (1919-1923) from Russia, Poland (Total: 40,000). Founded Histradrut Labor Union and Haganah.
• Fourth Aliyah (1923-1929) from Poland, Hungary. Total: 80,000 (over one-quarter left). Emergence of an urban middle class.
• Fifth Aliyah (1929-1939) from German, Central and Eastern Europe. Total: 250,000 (10 percent left). Intellectual middle class. Refugee artists introduced Bauhaus (Tel Aviv has the highest concentration of Bauhaus architecture in the world) and founded the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra.

See also

• Zionism

External link

• "Aliyah" - the word and its meaning