After ceasing to be Paris director of Youth Aliyah
, HA
took a job as a refugee worker with the Jewish Agency
, helping Austrian and Czech refugees.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Second Edition, Yale University Press, 2004.
113, 143, 148
Occupation
Fay Weldon
Fay Birkinshaw (later FW
) worked with a Jewish school-friend at a Youth Aliyah
camp in France, caring for Jewish children displaced by the war.
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.
189ff
politics
Hannah Arendt
In Paris Arendt collected a political family from young anti-Fascists and intellectuals; she called them the tribe, and these were some of her most politically active years. She continued her Zionist work under the...
Residence
Karen Gershon
Kaethe and her sister Lise registered with Youth Aliyah
, an organization which arranged the passage of child emigrants to the Land of Israel. Although by late 1938 more children had registered with Youth...
Travel
Hannah Arendt
In spring 1935 her work for Youth Aliyah
gave her the opportunity to travel to Haifa and Jerusalem. This journey took in ancient sites from several different cultures: on the way out she visited...