Goodbye America

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to Gender, Jewish religious life, the Holocaust, Memory, State of Israel, the United States, and Commemoration.Barbara Getzoff Schoenfeld was raised in Woodside, New York. She completed her BA in Special Education at City College New York after she spent a year in Israel on Kibbutz Alumim, Bar-Ilan Universityand Kibbutz Ein Tsurim. After another year on Kibbutz Ein Tsurim she completed her MSC in Multiply and Severely Handicapped education in New York, and she officially made aliyah in 1983. She and her husband lived in Los Angeles for six years and she made aliyah with her husband and son in 1992. After living in Jerusalem for the first year they moved to Givat Zev where they live until today.

• Introduction – Aura Hammer: Aura in Wonderland – Chani Preizler: Through the Looking Glass: The Story of My Aliyah -- Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz: A Lifelong Journey to My Homeland -- Michelle Luchans Atias: Scenes From An Aliyah Journey -- Michal Ben Ya’akov: Getting My Feet Wet and Jumping In -- Barbara Berkowitz: An American Living in Israel -- Aviva (Anita) Shoshana Goldman Groen: How I Made Aliyah -- Amy B. Luchans: Lucy in the Promised Land -- Barbara Getzoff Schoenfeld: Third Time’s a Charm -- Julia (Yehudit Devorah) Basch: What Was I Thinking?! -- Chavi Swidler Eisenberg: (Wo)Man Makes Plans and God Laughs -- Naomi Ferziger: Home Wasn’t Built in a Day -- Pearl Herskovitz: My Dream Fulfilled -- Robin Shoshanah Kahn: Follow Your Dreams -- Chasya Harriet Nudelman: My Aliyah -- Naomi Ragen: Aliyah: What I Hadn’t Expected; What I Hadn’t Dreamed -- Rochel Sylvetsky: This Is Home -- Deena Zimmerman: Absorbed, but Not Quite -- Glossary of Foreign Terms -- Contributors