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...

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1. Verfasser: Brinkmann, Tobias 1967- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY, United States of America Oxford University Press [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:"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."
Beschreibung:viii, 318 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780197655658
0197655653

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