Between Borders

The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe

Tobias Brinkmann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-765565-8 (ISBN)

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Between the 1860s and the early 1920s, more than two million Jews moved from Eastern Europe to the United States while smaller groups moved to other destinations, such as Western Europe, Palestine, and South Africa. During and after the First World War hundreds of thousands of Jews were permanently displaced across Eastern Europe. Migration restrictions that were imposed after 1914, especially in the United States, prevented most from reaching safe havens, and an unknown but substantial number of Jews perished during the Holocaust-as they had been displaced in Eastern Europe years before they were deported to ghettos and killing sites. Even after the Holocaust, tens of thousands of Jewish survivors were stranded in permanent transit for many years.

Between Borders tells and contextualizes the stories of these Jewish migrants and refugees before and after the First World War. It explains how immigration laws in countries such as the United States influenced migration routes around the world. Using memoirs, letters, and accounts by investigative journalists and Jewish aid workers, Tobias Brinkmann sheds light on the experiences of individual migrants, some of whom laid the foundation for migration and refugee studies as a field of scholarship, even coining terms such as "displaced person," and contributing to its legal definition at the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention. The stories of these migrants and refugees were used to propose a new future for the United States, reimagining it as a pluralistic society-one comprised of immigrants.

Tobias Brinkmann is Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago.

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Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Early Jewish Migration from Lithuania

Chapter 2: The 1881/82 Pogroms and the Brody Crisis

Chapter 3: Jewish Mobilities and the Business of Migration

Chapter 4: Migrant Journeys

Chapter 5: Protective Umbrella: The Transnational Jewish Support Network

Chapter 6: The First World War and its Aftermath: Displacement and Permanent Transit

Chapter 7: The Interwar Years: Alternative Destinations and Dead Ends

Chapter 8: A Not So Typical Journey

Chapter 9: Jewish Migrations or Wandering Jews?

Chapter 10: Epilogue: Migrants Become Immigrants

Conclusion: Migrants and Refugees

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Erscheinungsdatum	17.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	15, b/w
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 236 mm
Gewicht	603 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-19-765565-3 / 0197655653
ISBN-13	978-0-19-765565-8 / 9780197655658
Zustand	Neuware