Early German Jewish migrants to Palestine often remained permanently alienated from yishuv society

Evidence

Arnold Zweig was one of several German Jewish intellectuals who, despite having made aliyah, never felt at home in Palestinian Jewish society; after the Second World War, Zweig returned to East Germany. De Haan’s colorful life and violent death provided excellent grist for a historical novel. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 463

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: why did these German intellectuals remain so alienated — was it class, Bildung culture, or political ideology? This hints at a whole stratum of pre-1933 German aliyah that felt estranged.
• XREF: connects to: German-Jewish philanthropy to immigrant slum dwellers was laced through with patronizing contempt