Points of Passage : : Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914 /

Points of Passage : : Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914 / / ed. by Tobias Brinkmann.

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 port...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Brinkmann, Tobias,
Carlsson, Carl Henrik,
Eilers, Nicole Kvale,
Keeling, Drew,
Kushner, Tony,
Lüthi, Barbara,
Sebak, Per Kristian,
Weber, Klaus,
HerausgeberIn:
Brinkmann, Tobias,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction POINTS OF PASSAGE Reexamining Jewish Migrations from Eastern Europe after 1880
  • PART I MEDICALIZATION OF BORDERS
  • 1 GERMS OF ANARCHY, CRIME, DISEASE, AND DEGENERACY Jewish Migration to the United States and the Medicalization of European Borders around 1900
  • PART II TRANSIT THROUGH SCANDINAVIA, GERMANY, AND BRITAIN
  • 2 IMMIGRANTS OR TRANSMIGRANTS? Eastern European Jews in Sweden, 1860–1914
  • 3 EMIGRANT TRAINS Jewish Migration through Prussia and American Remote Control, 1880–1914
  • 4 TRANSMIGRANTS BETWEEN LEGAL RESTRICTIONS AND PRIVATE CHARITY The Jews’ Temporary Shelter in London, 1885–1939
  • PART III ATLANTIC PASSAGES
  • 5 THE IMPROVEMENT OF TRAVEL CONDITIONS FOR MIGRANTS CROSSING THE NORTH ATLANTIC, 1900–1914
  • 6 RUSSIAN-JEWISH TRANSMIGRATION AND SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING COMPANIES The Case of DFDS and the Atlantic Rate War of 1904–1905
  • 7 THE BOYS AND GIRLS NOT FROM BRAZIL From Russia to Rio and Back Again Via Southampton and Hamburg, 1878–1880
  • Contributors
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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