A major contribution to the understanding of the European Jewish migration to late 19th to early 20th century America Provides rich detail about what trans-Atlantic migration felt like to those involved Investigates various aspects of transmigration including medical controls, travel conditions, the role of steamship lines and the rise of migration restrictions
A major contribution to the understanding of the European Jewish migration to late 19th to early 20th century America Provides rich detail about what trans-Atlantic migration felt like to those involved Investigates various aspects of transmigration including medical controls, travel conditions, the role of steamship lines and the rise of migration restrictions
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 Transnationalität: Perspektiven deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte (Schöningh, 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).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Points of Passage: Reexamining Jewish Migrations from Eastern Europe after 1880 Tobias Brinkmann Part I: Medicalization of Borders Chapter 1. "[G]erms of anarchy, crime, disease and degeneracy": Jewish Migration to the United States and the Medicalization of European Borders around 1900 Barbara Lüthi Part II: Transit through Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain Chapter 2. Immigrants or Transmigrants? Eastern European Jews in Sweden, 1860-1914 Carl Henrik Carlsson Chapter 3. Emigrant Trains: Jewish Migration through Prussia and American "Remote Control," 1880-1914 Nicole Kvale Eilers Chapter 4. Transmigrants between Legal Restrictions and Private Charity: The Jews' Temporary Shelter in London, 1885-1939 Klaus Weber Part III: Atlantic Passages Chapter 5. The Improvement of Travel Conditions for Migrants Crossing the North Atlantic, 1900-1914 Drew Keeling Chapter 6. Russian-Jewish Transmigration and Scandinavian Shipping Companies: The Case of DFDS and the Atlantic Rate War of 1904-05 Per Kristian Sebak Chapter 7. The Boys and Girls Not from Brazil: From Russia to Rio and Back Again Via Southampton and Hamburg, 1878-1880 Tony Kushner Bibliography
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Points of Passage: Reexamining Jewish Migrations from Eastern Europe after 1880 Tobias Brinkmann Part I: Medicalization of Borders Chapter 1. "[G]erms of anarchy, crime, disease and degeneracy": Jewish Migration to the United States and the Medicalization of European Borders around 1900 Barbara Lüthi Part II: Transit through Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain Chapter 2. Immigrants or Transmigrants? Eastern European Jews in Sweden, 1860-1914 Carl Henrik Carlsson Chapter 3. Emigrant Trains: Jewish Migration through Prussia and American "Remote Control," 1880-1914 Nicole Kvale Eilers Chapter 4. Transmigrants between Legal Restrictions and Private Charity: The Jews' Temporary Shelter in London, 1885-1939 Klaus Weber Part III: Atlantic Passages Chapter 5. The Improvement of Travel Conditions for Migrants Crossing the North Atlantic, 1900-1914 Drew Keeling Chapter 6. Russian-Jewish Transmigration and Scandinavian Shipping Companies: The Case of DFDS and the Atlantic Rate War of 1904-05 Per Kristian Sebak Chapter 7. The Boys and Girls Not from Brazil: From Russia to Rio and Back Again Via Southampton and Hamburg, 1878-1880 Tony Kushner Bibliography
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