Between borders : the great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe
Tobias Brinkmann
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
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| Omfang | viii, 318 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Early Jewish Migration from Lithuania -- The 1881/82 Pogroms and the Brody Crisis -- Jewish Mobilities and the Business of Migration -- Migrant Journeys -- Protective Umbrella : The Transnational Jewish Support Network -- The First World War and its Aftermath : Displacement and Permanent Transit -- The Interwar Years : Alternative Destinations and Dead Ends -- A Not So Typical Journey -- Jewish Migrations or Wandering Jews? -- Migrants Become Immigrants -- Migrants and Refugees.. - "Migration is a defining aspect of the Jewish experience. Since biblical times Jewish migrations have been widely associated with flight from persecution. Long before the Holocaust, accounts about Jewish history highlighted antisemitism and expulsions as overarching causes for Jewish population movements. In the 1904 Jewish Encyclopedia Joseph Jacobs characterized Jewish history as a constant chain of "forced" movements "from country to country." Since the 1980s specialist scholars have shifted to more differentiated interpretations of Jewish migrations. Yet the lachrymose view of Jewish migrations persists in popular publications, textbooks, and even scholarly studies, especially surveys of global migration and refugee issues. In an informative 1996 book about global migrations, Thomas Sowell begins the chapter on the Jews with this sentence: "The tragic history of the Jews as a people wandering the world through centuries of persecution has been...remarkable for their achievements." In the chapter Sowell plays down the agency of Jews as migrants"--
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| ISBN | 9780197655658
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