1st Edition
Jewish Migration in Modern Times The Case of Eastern Europe
Introduction – Jewish migration in modern times: the case of Eastern Europe 1. Mr. Lewinstein goes to parliament: rethinking the history and historiography of Jewish immigration 2. "Between the straits": Jewish immigration to the United States and Palestine, 1915–1925 3. Jewish emigration from communist Poland: the decline of Polish Jewry in the aftermath of the Holocaust 4. Surmounting obstacles to migration and repatriation amid Polish and Israeli nation-building 5. Swedish policy on Jewish immigration from Poland, 1968–1972 6. Conflicting visions: debates relating to Soviet Jewish emigration in the global arena 7. The emigration intentions of Russian Jews: the role of socio-demographic variables, social networks, and satisfaction with life 8. Media, politics, and Jewish migration from East Europe amid the military crisis in Ukraine, 2014–2015 9. The long silent revolution: capturing the life stories of Soviet-Jewish migrants to the West, 1970–2010 9A. That’s what I did 9B. Excerpt from "Now I know that there are other countries"
Biography
Semion Goldin is a Senior Research Fellow at the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Mia Spiro is a Lecturer in Jewish Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Scott Ury is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History, and Director of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
