IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB000932818

Professional Identity across the Borders: Refugee Psychiatrists in Palestine, 1933--1945 (2009)

Zalashik, Rakefet (Author)
Davidovitch, Nadav (Author)

Social History of Medicine
Volume: 22
Pages: 569--587

Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930--1960
Language: English

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Jews Emigration; immigration Scientific communities; interprofessional relations Psychiatry Refugees Physicians; doctors 20th century, early Palestine

The article explores and contextualises the arrival of Jewish psychiatrists from Germany and Austria in Palestine and their absorption process during the 1930s and 1940s. We investigate the interaction between the refugees and a varied local population composed of Jews from different origins, Arabs and immigrants. We claim that the case of psychiatrist refugees from Europe in the 1930s was unique in comparison to the migration of Jewish psychiatrists to other countries and in comparison to the immigration of other medical professionals to Palestine during the period. The lack of a psychiatric community in Palestine before their arrival determined the nature of their unique absorption. It also created a special psychiatric discourse based on a mixture of the German medical model and the reality of the Jewish Zionist settlement that forged new perceptions of both mental health and Zionism.

...More

Included in

Article Weindling, Paul (2009) Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930--1960: Introduction. Social History of Medicine (p. 451). unapi

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000932818/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Collins, Kenneth; (2009)
European Refugee Physicians in Scotland, 1933--1945 (/isis/citation/CBB000932815/)

Chapter Wolff, Stefan; (2005)
Einstein verlässt Deutschland. Vertreibung und Exil von Physikern in der Zeit des Dritten Reiches (/isis/citation/CBB001024562/)

Article Zalashik, Rakefet; (2005)
Psychiatry, Ethnicity and Migration: The Case of Palestine 1920--1948 (/isis/citation/CBB000651275/)

Article Lazaros C Triarhou; (2019)
Women neuropsychiatrists on Wagner-Jauregg’s staff in Vienna at the time of the Nobel award: ordeal and fortitude (/isis/citation/CBB610855397/)

Article Aleksandra Loewenau; (2016)
Between Resentment and Aid: German and Austrian Psychiatrist and Neurologist Refugees in Great Britain Since 1933 (/isis/citation/CBB383730477/)

Article Shepherd, Michael; (2009)
The Impact of Germanic Refugees on Twentieth-Century British Psychiatry (/isis/citation/CBB000932802/)

Article Weindling, Paul; (2009)
Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930--1960: Introduction (/isis/citation/CBB000932801/)

Article Abu El-Haj, Nadia; (2002)
Producing (Arti) Facts: Archaeology and Power during the British Mandate of Palestine (/isis/citation/CBB000641103/)

Article Eden, Alp; Irzik, Gürol; (2012)
German Mathematicians in Exile in Turkey: Richard Von Mises, William Prager, Hilda Geiringer, and Their Impact on Turkish Mathematics (/isis/citation/CBB001251214/)

Article Zamet, John; (2009)
The Anschluss and the Problem of Refugee Stomatologists (/isis/citation/CBB000932813/)

Article Kozma, Liat; (2010)
Sexology in the Yishuv: The Rise and Decline of Sexual Consultation in Tel Aviv, 1930--39 (/isis/citation/CBB001031136/)

Article Villiez, Anna von; (2009)
The Emigration of Women Doctors from Germany under National Socialism (/isis/citation/CBB000932817/)

Article Reisman, Arnold; (2008)
They Helped Modernize Turkey's Medical Education and Practice: Refugees from Nazism 1933--1945 (/isis/citation/CBB000931580/)

Article Decker, Karola; (2003)
Divisions and Diversity: The Complexities of Medical Refuge in Britain, 1933--1948 (/isis/citation/CBB000630212/)

Article Reisman, Arnold; (2007)
Jewish Refugees from Nazism, Albert Einstein, and the Modernization of Higher Education in Turkey (1933--1945) (/isis/citation/CBB000773083/)

Article Woodward, William R.; (2010)
Russian Women Émigrées in Psychology: Informal Jewish Networks (/isis/citation/CBB001033691/)

Thesis Dan Tsahor; (2015)
Hebrew Encyclopedias: Objectivity, Jewish History, and the National Territory (/isis/citation/CBB054216437/)

Article Sufian, Sandy; (2006)
Colonial Malariology, Medical Borders, and Sharing Scientific Knowledge in Mandatory Palestine (/isis/citation/CBB000740721/)

Article Hirsch, Dafna; (2009)
“We Are Here to Bring the West, Not Only to Ourselves”: Zionist Occidentalism and the Discourse of Hygiene in Mandate Palestine (/isis/citation/CBB001031138/)

Book Patrizia Guarnieri; (2016)
Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York (/isis/citation/CBB330197052/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}