Goodbye America: Fifty Years of American-Jewish Women’’s Immigration to Israel, a Collective Autobiography (1967-2017)

The book is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the author’s path to making that choice, and describes and analyses her life after her immigration and at various crossroads of her life.

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.