The Jewish Migration Experience

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-785562-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm

Immigration is a central feature of Jewish history, and perhaps even more so in modern times. From the late 19th century through today, nearly ten million Jews have moved between continents, shifting their spatial distribution from Eastern Europe, Asia, and North Africa to Western countries and to Israel. These migrations are an expression of the desire to improve legal status, to take advantage of economic opportunities, and to fulfill nationalist and religious aspirations. Indeed, Jews have not always been able to realize their wishes to move, whether because of prohibitions on leaving their places of residence or restrictions on settling in new destinations. Of course, the establishment of the state of Israel had a decisive impact on the choice of Jews and their family members, even if some of the latter were not Jewish according to religious law. Still, the physical transition did not mark the end of the immigration process, and in their new country Jews had to obtain citizenship, acquire the local language, find work, secure housing, and adjust to the culture of the host society. Today, at the end of a long process of migration, settlement, and re-migration, Jews are concentrated in a small number of highly developed countries, where they have achieved extraordinary educational and economic attainments and enjoy full rights. The symposium in this volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry brings together a dozen original essays, each of which tackle, in one form or another, Jewish migration, covering different sub-periods, broad areas across the globe, and diverse disciplines including art, literature, film, history, and sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rebhun, Uzi

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Symposium

- The Jewish Migration Experience

- Mirjam Rajner, Walking through History: Wandering, Exile, and Migration in Works of Jewish Artists

- Samuel Heilman, Chabad Shluchim: Migration without Immigration

- Zef Segal, Immigration as a News Item: Attitudes toward Jewish Immigrants in the 19th-Century Hebrew Press

- David Stromberg, “I Might Have My Writing Translated into English”: A Literary-Biographical Consideration of Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1937-1943

- Yuval Rivlin, Proto-noir: Alienation and Homelessness in the Films of German Jewish Emigrés to Hollywood

- Sebastian Willert, Of Refugee Scholars and “Arrival Brokers”: New Perspectives on Forced Jewish Academic Migration to Turkey in the 1930s

- Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Between Rocks, Hard Places, and Promised Lands: Jewish Migration during the Cold War

- Aviad Moreno, Home and Away: Israel and the Translocal Histories of “Sephardim” in Australia

- Reviva Hasson and David J. Graham, The Paradox of South African Jewish Emigration in the Post-Apartheid Era

- Sergio DellaPergola, The Non-Jewish Grandchild and Israel's Law of Return: Implications for Migration and Demography

- Paula Kabalo and Hila Shalem Baharad, Reclaiming “Belonging”: Immigrants' Letters to David Ben-Gurion

- Chaim I. Waxman, Ideology and Pragmatism: U.S. Aliyah, 1948-2024

- Essay

- Brian Horowitz, More than Mere Opportunism? Vladimir Jabotinsky's Shifting Stance on Judaism

- Review Essay

- Arieh Saposnik, East, West, and Jewish re-Placement

- Book Reviews (arranged by subject)

- Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide

- Rachel Blumenthal, Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951-1964, RONALD ZWEIG

- Mark W. Kiel, The Jews of Cz?stochowa: The Life and Death of a Community, a Concise History, DAVID SILBERKLANG

- Jan La?ni?c?ek and Jan Lambertz (eds.), More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-era Camps and Ghettos, NA'AMA SERI-LEVI

- Cultural Studies, Literature, and Religion

- Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman (eds.), Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders, MARA W. COHEN IOANNIDES

- Daniel Ross Goodman, Soloveitchik's Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America, MICHAEL MARMUR

- Ronnie Grinberg, Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, SANDER L. GILMAN

- Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum, Jews in Suits: Men's Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938, Neta Peretz

- Jonathan Karp (ed.), Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America, ERIC L. GOLDSTEIN

- Katrin Keßler, Sarah M. Ross, Barbara Staudinger, and Lea Weik (eds.), Jewish Life and Culture in Germany after 1945: Sacred Places, Objects and Musical Traditions, OLAF GLÖCKNER

- Klavdia Smola, Reinventing Tradition: Russian-Jewish Literature between Soviet Underground and Post-Soviet Deconstruction OLGA STEIN

- History, Biography, and Social Sciences

- Pierre Anctil and Richard Menkis (eds.), In a “Land of Hope”: Documents on the Canadian Jewish Experience, 1627-1923, RICHARD I. COHEN

- Paula J. Birnbaum, Sculpting a Life: Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv, LARRY SILVER

- Richard I. Cohen and Mirjam Rajner, Samuel Hirszenberg 1865-1908: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil, MICHAEL BERKOWITZ

- Sandra Fox, The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America, LAURA YARES

- Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, and Jonathan Skolnik (eds.), Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990, GUY MIRON

- Leonard J. Greenspoon (ed.), Jews and Urban Life, SCOTT URY

- Kenneth B. Moss, Benjamin Nathans, and Taro Tsurumi (eds.), From Europe's East to the Middle East: Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages, ARIEH SAPOSNIK

- Alice Nakhimovsky, The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck: Eight Jewish Lives under Stalin, GENNADY ESTRAIKH

- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 35, Promised Lands: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel, ARIEH SAPOSNIK

- Maurice Samuels, Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair, RICHARD I. COHEN

- Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovitch (eds.), A Jew in the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History, ELLIE R. SCHAINKER

- Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

- Viola Alianov-Rautenberg, No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine, MATAN BOORD

- Eric Alterman, We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight over Israel, OFER SHIFF

- Alon Confino, Hof Tanturah: horbano shel kefar palestini, 1948 (The Coast of Tantura - The Destruction of a Palestinian Village, 1948), MENACHEM KLEIN

- Amit Levy, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel, MENACHEM KLEIN

- Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXXVI

Über Autor(innen)

Uzi Rebhun completed his doctoral studies in 1997 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was trained as a post-doc at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University (1997-98). Upon returning to Israel he received a tenured position at the Hebrew University, where he is today a full professor in the field of Jewish demography and statistics. He has written extensively on migration, both international and internal, religious (mainly Jewish) identification, interfaith marriage, home-diaspora relations, Jews and health, and antisemitism.