Points of Passage

Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-029-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brinkmann, Tobias

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Brinkmann, Tobias
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).