The Golden Age Shtetl
The Golden Age Shtetl

Author: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-03-30

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1400851165

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A major history of the shtetl's golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village stricken by poverty and pogroms, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern argues that, in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community as vibrant as any in Europe. Petrovsky-Shtern brings this golden age to life, looking at dozens of shtetls and drawing on a wealth of never-before-used archival material. Illustrated throughout with rare archival photographs and artwork, this nuanced history casts the shtetl in an altogether new light, revealing how its golden age continues to shape the collective memory of the Jewish people today.

The Radicalization of European Jews in the US Metropolis
The Radicalization of European Jews in the US Metropolis

Author: Frank Jacob

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-08-19

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 3110653125

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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Jews from Central and Eastern Europe arrived in New York City, where they did not only find a new home, but far away from their shtetl origin, the new members of the American society also began to politically radicalize. There has been a discussion in the literature related to the field, where, how, and why the Jewish population radicalized. This study analyses two waves of radicalization: one related to the American environment that is responsible for the described process at the end of the 19th century; one, related to the developments in Eastern Europe during the early decades of the 20th century. For both radicalization processes this book compares the reasons, elements, and aims of those who join radical movements to show that there is a transatlantic perspective that links both processes to each other.

Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement
Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement

Author: Robert E. Mitchell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3319991450

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This study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from drawing on the large vocabularies, questions, theories and analytical methods of human geography, economics and the social sciences for an understanding of how Jewish communities responded to multiple disruptions during the nineteenth century. Moving from the ecological level of systems of settlements and variations among individual ones down to the immediate built environment, the book explores how both physical and human space influenced responses to everyday lives and emigration to America.

The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas
The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas

Author: Gérard Chaliand

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780140178142

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Examines displaced cultures throughout the world, including Jewish, African, Irish, Armenian, and Palestinian diasporas.

Branching Out
Branching Out

Author: Avraham Barkai

Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780841911529

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The narrative chronicles their experiences in the goldfields of California, on Indian reservations, and during the Civil War, in which German-Jewish soldiers in the Union and Confederate armies struggled against bigotry to assert their civil rights.

Impure Migration
Impure Migration

Author: Mir Yarfitz

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0813598168

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Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one of very few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries, and Jewish men facilitate their transit and the organization of their work and social lives. Instead of marginalizing this story or reading it as a degrading chapter in Latin American Jewish history, Impure Migration interrogates a complicated social landscape to reveal that sex work is in fact a critical part of the histories of migration, labor, race, and sexuality.

Statistics and Reality
Statistics and Reality

Author: Heinz Fassmann

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9089640525

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"Worldwide harmonisation of migration statistics is something international bodies dream of. And yet, attempts by organisations needing comparative data have not proven very successful thus far. More than just problematising the incomparability of migrati

Post-cosmopolitan Cities
Post-cosmopolitan Cities

Author: Caroline Humphrey

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0857455109

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Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized tourism on urban sociality. The case studies here share the situation of having been incorporated in previous political regimes (imperial, colonial, socialist) that one way or another created their own kind of cosmopolitanism, and now these cities are experiencing the aftermath of these regimes while being exposed to new national politics and migratory flows of people. Caroline Humphrey is a Research Director in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She has worked in the USSR/Russia, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Nepal, and India. Her research interests include socialist and post-socialist society, religion, ritual, economy, history, and the contemporary transformations of cities. Vera Skvirskaja is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University. She has worked in arctic Siberia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Her recent research interests include urban cosmopolitanism, educational migration in Europe and coexistence in the post-Soviet city.

The Migration Debate
The Migration Debate

Author: Sarah Spencer

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1847422853

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A well balanced, critical analysis of UK migration policies, in a European context, from entry controls through to integration and citizenship of interest to academics and policy makers alike.