Refugees Refugees The Right Honourable Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits ( 8 February 1921– 31 October 1999) was the Orthodox Judaism Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. His successor is the present Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Immanuel Jakobovits"
The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) is an independent administrative tribunal. The IRB is responsible for applying the Canadian federal Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and for making decisions on immigration and refugee matters. The IRB decides, among other responsibilities, who needs refugee protection among the thousands of claimants who come to Canada annually. The IRB reports to the Canadian government through the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada"
Don Isaac ben Judah or Yitzchak ben Yehuda Abravanel was a Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. He was a scion of the Abravanel family. In many works he is referred to solely by his last name, which is variously spelled as Abravanel, Abarbanel, and Abrabanel. Many Torah and Talmud scholars today, simply refer to him as "The Abarbanel". ...more on Wikipedia about "Isaac Abrabanel"
Jascha Horenstein ( May 6, 1898 - April 2, 1973) was a conductor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jascha Horenstein"
Jeremy Hinzman (born in 1979 in Rapid City, South Dakota) is a former United States Army private from the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In January of 2004, he fled the United States, and was one of six American deserters openly seeking refugee status in Canada. On March 24, 2005, an immigration panel rejected Hinzman's clain, determining that he was not a conscientious objector and was thus ineligible for refugee status. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jeremy Hinzman"
The Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century emigration of Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Mizrahi background, from majority Arab lands. Typically, this emigration followed documented discrimination, harrassment, persecution, and financial confiscation on the part of the majority population and / or government agencies. Aprroximately two-thirds of effected Jews emigrated to the modern State of Israel; other common refuge destinations included the United States, Canada and France. Disruption overall was significant: the ancestors of many Jews had resided within Arab lands for centuries before the advent and spread of Islam in the seventh century CE. The ancestors of others had immigrated in later centuries. Previously sporadic, Jewish emigration from Arab lands accelerated following the establishment of Israel in 1948. The process continued as further Arab-Israeli wars were fought, sustained by anti-Jewish sentiment within the various states, and as Arab nations under French, British and Italian colonial rule or protection gained independence. The "exodus" (or so it came commonly to be called by those involved) was virtually complete within a few years after the Six Day War. Many have regarded the Jewish exodus from Arab lands as historically paralleling the Palestinian Arab emigration from the previous British Mandate of Palestine, a point of enduring controversy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jewish exodus from Arab lands"
Judith Kerr (born June 14 1923 in Berlin, Germany) is a German writer, who moved to the United Kingdom at the age of thirteen in 1936, where she has lived ever since, becoming a naturalised British citizen. She is best known for her children's books, both self-illustrated picture books such as the 17-strong Mog series and novels like When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which semi-autobiographically tells the story of the rise of the Nazis in 1930s Germany from a child's perspective. ...more on Wikipedia about "Judith Kerr"
Kurt Herbert Adler ( 2 April 1905 - 9 February 1988 in Marin County, California) was an American conductor born in Austria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kurt Herbert Adler"
Le Chi Thuc is the official Media Spokesperson of the Government of Free Vietnam, since 1995. ...more on Wikipedia about "Le Chi Thuc"
(List of famous refugees) * Eva Jircicna - a refugee, she designed the Faith Zone in the Millennium Dome. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of famous refugees"
Lucian Freud, OM, CH (born 8 December 1922) is a British painter and printmaker. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lucian Freud"
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ) ( April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who contributed several ground-breaking works to modern philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Ludwig Wittgenstein"
Marc Chagall ( Belarusian and Russian: Марк Шага́л; his real name was Mojša Zacharavič Šahałaŭ / Мойша Захаравіч Шагалаў) ( July 7, 1887 – March 28, 1985) was a Belarusian-born French painter. Among the celebrated painters of the 20th century, he is often associated with the Surrealist movement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marc Chagall"
The Mariel boatlift was a mass exodus of refugees who departed for the United States from Cuba's Mariel Harbor between April 15 and October 31, 1980. Fidel Castro eventually closed the harbour to all refuge-seeking Cubans. Due to ocean currents and its close proximity, the refugees' vessels headed to Florida and the majority landed in Miami. The immigrants were detained upon arrival and crowded conditions in South Florida immigration processing centers forced U.S. government agencies to swiftly move the " Marielitos" to other centers in Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, and Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mariel boatlift"
Maurice Abravanel, ( January 6, 1903 – September 22, 1993), was a Greek-born Swiss conductor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maurice Abravanel"
Max Born (born December 11, 1882 in Breslau, died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen) was a German mathematician and physicist of Jewish heritage. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics. Born was the only child of Gustav Born and Margarete Kauffmann, and was the father of G. V. R. Born, and the maternal grandfather of British born Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John. He was one of the 11 signatories to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. ...more on Wikipedia about "Max Born"
Michael Hamburger (born 22 March, 1924) is a noted British translator, poet, and academic, known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work as a literary critic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michael Hamburger"
Michael Marks, ( June 1859 – December 31 1907), was one of the two co-founders of the retail chain Marks and Spencer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michael Marks"
Mirta Ojito (born circa 1960) is a Marielito and a newspaper reporter. She is also the author of Finding Mañana, a memoir of the Mariel boatlift. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mirta Ojito"
Norbert Brainin, ( March 12, 1923 – April 10 2005), was the first violinist of the Amadeus Quartet, one of the world's most highly regarded string quartets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Norbert Brainin"
The Orderly Departure Program (ODP) was a program to permit immigration of Vietnamese refugees to the United States of America, instituted in 1979 under the auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Later, following normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the United States enacted legislation and established direct communication with the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to facilitate emigration from Vietnam under the program. ...more on Wikipedia about "Orderly Departure Program"
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Oscar Straus ( 6 March 1870 - 11 January 1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas. An anecdote states that his original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's', since he wished not to be associated with the illustrious Strauss family of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oscar Straus (composer)"
Ossip Samoilovitch Bernstein, ( 1882, Zhitomir, Volhynia to 1962, Paris), born in Imperial Russia in 1882 to a family of Jewish heritage, his family grew up in the anti-semitic atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. He was one of the worlds top 10 chess masters in the world from about 1903 to World War I. During the Great War, he fled the country to France and dropped out of chess until the 1930s. Then he performed creditably and even drew a match with the then World Chess Champion and fellow emigré Alexander Alekhine +1 -1 =2. When FIDE introduced official titles in 1950, Bernstein was awarded the International Grandmaster title. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ossip Bernstein"
The Pacific Solution was the name given to the Australian government policy of diverting asylum seekers to detention camps on small island nations in the Pacific Ocean, rather than allowing them to land on the Australian mainland. There were a number of pieces of legislation supporting this policy, including the controversial excising of thousands of islands from Australia’s migration zone or Australian territory. The policy was developed in response to the 2001 Tampa affair and is thought to be the brainchild of then Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pacific Solution"
The Palestinian Exodus ( Arabic: الهجرة الفلسطينية al-Hijra al-Filasteeniya) is the refugee flight of some 711,000 Palestinian Arabs (UN estimate ** ) during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and is called the Nakba ( Arabic: النكبة), meaning "disaster" or "cataclysm", by Palestinians. The Israeli estimate of the refugees is 520,000 and the Palestinian estimate is 900,000. They fled or were expelled from their homes in the part of Palestine that would become the State of Israel to other parts of Palestine or to neighbouring countries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Palestinian exodus"
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