Creator Bio
Aryeh Gelblum
1921–1993
Journalist Aryeh Gelblum went from Poland to Palestine in 1925. As a writer for the newspaper Haaretz in the late 1940s, he described Israel’s immigrants from Arab countries, spreading venomous stereotypes. Haaretz published a series of fifteen articles by Gelblum, who lived in settlement camps for a month, pretending to be an immigrant named Ḥaim Klopstock.
Content by Aryeh Gelblum
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I Was a New Immigrant for a Month: The Aliyah from Yemen and the African Problem
In the living quarters of the [North] African [Jews] in the transit camps, here’s what you’ll find: you’ll find filth, card games, and money, drunkenness, and whoring. Many of them are afflicted with…