From Germany to Palestine

The book deals with a historically unique case of international transfer of professionalknowledge and techniques in social care and social work.Principles of modern social work were introduced to the Jewish Jishuv (pre-statecommunity) in Palestine largely by German-Jewish welfare experts who immigratedin the 1930s. These social workers, mostly women and trained at the schools for socialwork in Weimar Germany, used the experiences they had gained in Germany andmodified them according to the conditions in Palestine.This book outlines the steps that have led to the establishment of a modern system ofsocial welfare (social policy, social work, social pedagogy) in Germany, in the Jewishcommunity in Germany and finally in Jewish Palestine. The beginning of this processcan be traced back to the late nineteenth century and extends to the late 1940s.