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Points of Passage - Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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Points of Passage - Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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"This is a major contribution to our understanding of a process
which in a few decades radically transformed the geography of the
Jewish world." . Antony Polonsky, United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum and Brandeis University "This volume will prove to be a very
valuable addition to the growing literature on Eastern European
migrations as a passage into Western Europe and beyond between 1880
and World War II." . Dorothee Schneider, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign " In this volume] migration takes a novel point of
departure: a focus on the phenomenon of transmigrants as a key to
understanding wider patterns of migration...The scholars
contributing to this volume of essays concretize in rich detail, as
we as readers and students of the subject have never really been
able to do before, what trans-Atlantic migration actually felt like
to those involved. The departure of Brinkmann and his colleagues
from older migration studies models is striking." . Eli
Lederhendler, Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History
and Institutions, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Between 1880
and 1914 several million Eastern Europeans migrated West. Much is
known about the immigration experience of Jews, Poles, Greeks, and
others, notably in the United States. Yet, little is known about
the paths of mass migration across "green borders" via European
railway stations and ports to destinations in other continents.
Ellis Island, literally a point of passage into America, has a much
higher symbolic significance than the often inconspicuous departure
stations, makeshift facilities for migrant masses at European
railway stations and port cities, and former control posts along
borders that were redrawn several times during the twentieth
century. This volume focuses on the journeys of Jews from Eastern
Europe through Germany, Britain, and Scandinavia between 1880 and
1914. The authors investigate various aspects of transmigration
including medical controls, travel conditions, and the role of the
steamship lines; and also review the rise of migration restrictions
around the globe in the decades before 1914. Tobias Brinkmann is
the Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and
History at Penn State University. His recent publications include
Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago (University of
Chicago Press, 2012); Migration und Transnationalitat: Perspektiven
deutsch-judischer Geschichte (Schoningh, 2012); and "Why Paul
Nathan Attacked Albert Ballin: The Transatlantic Mass Migration and
the Privatization of Prussia's Eastern Border Inspection,
1886-1914," Central European History (2010).
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