UID:
almahu_9949482347702882
Umfang:
1 online resource (276 p.)
ISBN:
9783110300710
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9783110238570
Serie:
New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History , 5
Inhalt:
During the era of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe (from the 1880s until the First World War), Switzerland played an important role in absorbing immigrants. Though located at the periphery of the main migration routes, the federal state with its liberal policies on foreigners became a key destination for students, revolutionaries, and travelers. The micro-studies and more general papers of this volume approach the topic in its transnational, local, linguistic, gendered, and ideological dimensions and from various disciplinary angles. They interweave and facilitate a novel take on the transitory spatial history and the Lebenswelt of East European Jews in Switzerland. Topics of this volume range - among others - from the location of Switzerland on the map of East European Jewish politics (Bundism, Socialism, Yiddishism, Zionism), conflicting performative cultures of Jewish and Russian revolutionaries, the Swiss Lehr- and Wanderjahre of the Jewish public intellectual Meir Wiener, the impact of Geneva on the Zionist Hebrew writer Ben Ami, the Russian-Jewish students' colonies in Berne and Zurich and questions of individuals' integration and acculturation.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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East European Jewish Immigrants Between Two Worlds. A Preface --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Part I. Migration, Politics, and Networks --
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Les Russes - The Image of East European Jews in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Zurich. --
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Jewish Political Emigration from Imperial Russia: Mapping the World in a Different Way --
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The Jewish Labor Bund in Switzerland --
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Some Russian Jewish Writers in Switzerland and the Valorization of Jewish Argument Style --
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Student Migration of Jews from Tsarist Russia to the Universities of Berne and Zurich, 1865-1914 --
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Part II. Individual Experiences, Switzerland, and the Literary Imagination --
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Kalman Marmor in Switzerland: Reconstructing a Sojourner's Biography --
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East European Jewish Migration to Switzerland and the Formation of "New Women". --
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Ben-Ami's Swiss Experience: Narrative and the Zionist Dream --
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"For the Pleasure of Life in Switzerland, I Had to Start Spitting Blood". --
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Kabbalah, Dada, Communism: Meir Wiener's Lehrjahre in Switzerland during World War I --
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Appendix I. --
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Herzl and the First Congress --
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Appendix II. --
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Fragments of an Unfinished Yiddish Novel --
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References --
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List of Contributors --
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List of Illustrations --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110638165
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317350
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317121
In:
E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317114
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110300697
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
Schlagwort(e):
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110300710
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110300710
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110300710
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