title: Conflicts of quarantine the case of Jewish immigrants to the Jewish state.
abstract: Shaar Haaliya--Israel's Ellis Island during the mass immigration of the 1950s--is a case study that challenges the historian's understanding of the concept of quarantine. It was isolated and fenced off for declared health purposes and was widely referred to as a quarantine, but archival and historiographical documentation suggest that Israeli public health policy did not define it as such. I track the discussion and conflict surrounding Shaar Haaliya's function and perception as a quarantine. This is a story that illuminates the way fear of disease converged with fear of immigration as well as the way defiance of public health institutions took shape in a unique framework of citizenship and during a unique wave of migration.
authors.affiliation: Program in Jewish Culture and Society, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. rds@illinois.edu
authors.forename: Rhona D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Seidelman
mesh_terms: D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D007585:Jews / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000941:ethics / Q000266:history*; D011790:Quarantine / Q000941:ethics / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology