Between borders: the great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe
"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...
| Subtitles: | Great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Brinkmann, Tobias, 1967-, Between borders : the great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe] (2025) (Diner, Hasia R., 1946 -)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Jews
/ Migration
/ History 1860-1950
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| Further subjects: | B
Europe, Eastern
Emigration and immigration
History 19th century
B Jews, East European Migrations History 20th century B Europe, Eastern Emigration and immigration History 20th century B Jews, East European Migrations History 19th century |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic |
| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 318 Seiten, Illustrationen, 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-765565-8 |
