Jewish migration in modern times : the case of Eastern Europe / edited by Semion Goldin, Mia Spiro, Scott Ury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Golʹdin, Semen, editor.

Spiro, Mia, editor.

Ury, Scott, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--History.

Jews.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Social conditions.

Jews--Migrations.

Eastern Europe.

Jews--Migrations--History.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Social conditions.

Europe, Eastern--Emigration and immigration--History.

Europe, Eastern.

Jews--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 191 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

This collection examines various aspects of Jewish migration within, from and to eastern Europe between 1880 and the present. It focuses on not only the wide variety of factors that often influenced the fateful decision to immigrate, but also the personal experience of migration and the critical role of individuals in larger historical processes. Including contributions by historians and social scientists alongside first-person memoirs, the book analyses the historical experiences of Jewish immigrants, the impact of anti-Jewish violence and government policies on the history of Jewish migration, the reception of Jewish immigrants in a variety of centres in America, Europe and Israel, and the personal dilemmas of those individuals who debated whether or not to embark on their own path of migration. By looking at the phenomenon of Jewish migration from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in a range of different settings, the contributions to this volume challenge and complicate many widely-held assumptions regarding Jewish migration in modern times. In particular, the chapters in this volume raise critical questions regarding the place of anti-Jewish violence in the history of Jewish migration as well as the chronological periodization and general direction of Jewish migration over the past 150 years. The volume also compares the experiences of Jewish immigrants to those of immigrants from other ethnic or religious communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of East European Jewish Affairs.

Contents:

Introduction: Jewish migration in modern times : the case of Eastern Europe / Scott Ury

Mr. Lewinstein goes to parliament : rethinking the history and historiography of Jewish immigration / David Feldman

"Between the straits" : Jewish immigration to the United States and Palestine, 1915-1925 / Gur Alroey

Jewish emigration from communist Poland : the decline of Polish Jewry in the aftermath of the Holocaust / Dariusz Stola

Surmounting obstacles to migration and repatriation amid Polish and Israeli nation-building / Marcos Silber

Swedish policy on Jewish immigration from Poland, 1968-1972 / Łukasz Górniok

Conflicting visions : debates relating to Soviet Jewish emigration in the global arena / Suzanne D. Rutland

The emigration intentions of Russian Jews : the role of socio-demographic variables, social networks, and satisfaction with life / Eugene Tartakovsky, Eduard Patrakov and Marina Nikulina

Media, politics, and Jewish migration from East Europe amid the military crisis in Ukraine, 2014-2015 / Olena Bagno-Moldavski

The long silent revolution : capturing the life stories of Soviet-Jewish migrants to the West, 1970-2010 / Rebecca A. Kobrin and Jay Oppenheim

That's what I did / Rebecca A. Kabrin

Excerpt from "Now I know that there are other countries" ...

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780367183684

0367183684

OCLC:

1088928134

Publisher Number:

99984106361