East European Jews in Switzerland / edited by Tamar Lewinsky and Sandrine Mayoraz.
During the era of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe (from the 1880s until the First World War), Switzerland with its liberal policies on foreigners became a key destination for students, revolutionaries, and travelers. The micro-studies and more general approaches of this volume interweave a...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2013]
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| Series: | New perspectives on modern Jewish history ;
Volume 5. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- East European Jewish Immigrants Between Two Worlds. A Preface
- Contents
- Introduction / Lewinsky, Tamar ; Mayoraz, Sandrine
- Les Russes
- The Image of East European Jews in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Zurich. / Mahrer, Stefanie
- Jewish Political Emigration from Imperial Russia: Mapping the World in a Different Way / Levin, Vladimir
- The Jewish Labor Bund in Switzerland / Mayoraz, Sandrine
- Some Russian Jewish Writers in Switzerland and the Valorization of Jewish Argument Style / Safran, Gabriella
- Student Migration of Jews from Tsarist Russia to the Universities of Berne and Zurich, 1865-1914 / Masé, Aline
- Kalman Marmor in Switzerland: Reconstructing a Sojourner's Biography / Lewinsky, Tamar
- East European Jewish Migration to Switzerland and the Formation of "New Women". / Broda, May B.
- Ben-Ami's Swiss Experience: Narrative and the Zionist Dream / Salmon, Laura
- "For the Pleasure of Life in Switzerland, I Had to Start Spitting Blood". / Kotlerman, Ber
- Kabbalah, Dada, Communism: Meir Wiener's Lehrjahre in Switzerland during World War I / Krutikov, Mikhail
- Herzl and the First Congress / Ami, Ben
- Fragments of an Unfinished Yiddish Novel / Wiener, Meir
- References
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Index.