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Donna Robinson Divine, Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government, Smith College and author of the forthcoming Exiled in the Homeland, a study of the experience of Jewish immigration to Palestine during the early years of the British Mandate.
Within a mere few years after World War II the Middle East was remade. The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and its consequences helped propel that part of the world to what seems to be a permanent and unenviable spot on any list of world crises.
