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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * 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 * Bibliography
* Acknowledgements * 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 * Bibliography
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