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Israel's Ellis Island, Behind Barbed Wire

Israel's Ellis Island, Behind Barbed Wire

Tel Aviv Review · TLV1 Studios

September 13, 202141m 57s

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Show Notes

Quarantine wasn't invented for corona. At the start of statehood, Israel encouraged mass immigration while seeking to prevent mass disease by putting immigrants through a quarantine camp called Shaar Ha'aliya.

Rhona Seidelman, a historian of medicine and public health, examines the camp's legacy both remembered and forgotten, in Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel's Gate.