East european jews in switzerland /

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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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Lewinsky, Tamar; Mayoraz, Sandrine
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2013]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: New perspectives on modern jewish history; 5
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110300710
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Summary: 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 and facilitate a novel take on the transitory spatial history and the Lebenswelt of East European Jews in Switzerland. Topics range from the location of Switzerland on the map of East European Jewish politics, modern Jewish literature, and the Russian-Jewish students? colonies in Berne and Zurich.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(xii,276pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9783110300710(electronic bk.)
Index Number: DS135
CLC: K522.8
Contents: Frontmatter --
East European Jewish Immigrants Between Two Worlds. A Preface --
Contents --
Introduction /
Les Russes The Image of East European Jews in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Zurich. /
Jewish Political Emigration from Imperial Russia: Mapping the World in a Different Way /
The Jewish Labor Bund in Switzerland /
Some Russian Jewish Writers in Switzerland and the Valorization of Jewish Argument Style /
Student Migration of Jews from Tsarist Russia to the Universities of Berne and Zurich, 1865-1914 /
Kalman Marmor in Switzerland: Reconstructing a Sojourner s Biography /
East European Jewish Migration to Switzerland and the Formation of "New Women". /
Ben-Ami s Swiss Experience: Narrative and the Zionist Dream /
"For the Pleasure of Life in Switzerland, I Had to Start Spitting Blood". /
Kabbalah, Dada, Communism: Meir Wiener s Lehrjahre in Switzerland during World War I /
Herzl and the First Congress /
Fragments of an Unfinished Yiddish Novel /
References --
List of Contributors --
List of Illustrations --
Index.