TY - JOUR
TI - Seeking a Return To Poland. The Case of the “Gomulka Aliyah” Immigrants in Israel (1956–1960)
AU - Węgrzyn, Ewa
TI - Seeking a Return To Poland. The Case of the “Gomulka Aliyah” Immigrants in Israel (1956–1960)
AB - 
	In my paper entitled Seeking a return to Poland. The case of “Gomulka Aliyah” immigrants in Israel (1956–1960) I describe the emigration of Polish citizens of Jewish origin to Israel in the second half of the 1950s. From October 1956, when Wladyslaw Gomulka came into power in Poland, it became possible for Polish Jews to relocate in to Israel. Leaving Poland was not obligatory for Jews in that period, but a rise in anti-Semitism and disappointment with the communist regime in Poland led a number of Polish citizens of Jewish origin to make the decision to emigrate. In the period of 1956 to 1960 approximately 50,000 Jews went to Israel. However, after few months of living in the New Homeland, some of the new immigrants from Poland were seeking to return. Difficult living conditions, an unfamiliar language, and unemployment led Polish Jews to request repatriation. That was in most of the cases impossible, as most of them had given up on Polish citizenship while immigrating to Israel.
VL - 2018
IS - Volume 16
PY - 2018
SN - 1733-5760
C1 - 2084-3925
SP - 123
EP - 131
DO - 10.4467/20843925SJ.18.009.10823
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/scripta-judaica-cracoviensia/artykul/seeking-a-return-to-poland-the-case-of-the-gomulka-aliyah-immigrants-in-israel-1956-1960
KW - return to Poland
KW - Polish Jews
KW - Israel
KW - immigrants
KW - immigration wave