Refuge for Russian Jews
Author | : Maurice de baron Hirsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Maurice de baron Hirsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Susan Wiley Hardwick |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1993-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226316116 |
In 1987, when victims of religious persecution were finally allowed to leave Russia, a flood of immigrants landed on the Pacific shores of North America. By the end of 1992 over 200,000 Jews and Christians had left their homeland to resettle in a land where they had only recently been considered "the enemy." Russian Refuge is a comprehensive account of the Russian immigrant experience in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia since the first settlements over two hundred years ago. Susan Hardwick focuses on six little-studied Christian groups—Baptists, Pentecostals, Molokans, Doukhobors, Old Believers, and Orthodox believers—to study the role of religion in their decisions to emigrate and in their adjustment to American culture. Hardwick deftly combines ethnography and cultural geography, presenting narratives and other data collected in over 260 personal interviews with recent immigrants and their family members still in Russia. The result is an illuminating blend of geographic analysis with vivid portrayals of the individual experience of persecution, migration, and adjustment. Russian Refuge will interest cultural geographers, historians, demographers, immigration specialists, and anyone concerned with this virtually untold chapter in the story of North American ethnic diversity.
Author | : Mark Edele |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081434268X |
This pioneering volume will interest scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues.
Author | : Ronald Sanders |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"The vast saga of Jewish emigration over the past century is etched in stunning detail by historian Ronald Sanders in this dramatic narrative. Beginning with the Russian programs in 1881, this harrowing history describes the massive exodus of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe that culminated in new Jewish population centers in America and Palestine"--back cover.
Author | : Susan Wiley Hardwick |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1993-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226316109 |
In 1987, when victims of religious persecution were finally allowed to leave Russia, a flood of immigrants landed on the Pacific shores of North America. By the end of 1992 over 200,000 Jews and Christians had left their homeland to resettle in a land where they had only recently been considered "the enemy." Russian Refuge is a comprehensive account of the Russian immigrant experience in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia since the first settlements over two hundred years ago. Susan Hardwick focuses on six little-studied Christian groups—Baptists, Pentecostals, Molokans, Doukhobors, Old Believers, and Orthodox believers—to study the role of religion in their decisions to emigrate and in their adjustment to American culture. Hardwick deftly combines ethnography and cultural geography, presenting narratives and other data collected in over 260 personal interviews with recent immigrants and their family members still in Russia. The result is an illuminating blend of geographic analysis with vivid portrayals of the individual experience of persecution, migration, and adjustment. Russian Refuge will interest cultural geographers, historians, demographers, immigration specialists, and anyone concerned with this virtually untold chapter in the story of North American ethnic diversity.
Author | : Ernest G. Heppner |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803272811 |
The unlikely refuge of Shanghai, the only city in the world that did not require a visa, was buffeted by the struggle between European imperialism, Japanese aggression, and Chinese nationalism. Ernest G. Heppner's compelling testimony is a brilliant account of this little-known haven. Although Heppner was a member of a privileged middle-class Jewish family, he suffered from the constant anti-Semitic undercurrent in his surroundings. The devastation of "Crystal Night" in November 1938, however, introduced a new level of Nazi horror and ended his comfortable world overnight. Heppner and his mother used the family's resources to escape to Shanghai. Heppner was taken aback by experiences on the ocean liner that transported the refugees to Shanghai: he was embarrassed and confounded when Egyptian Jews offered worn clothing to the Jewish passengers, he resented the edicts against Jewish passengers disembarking in any ports on the way, and he was unprepared for the poverty and cultural dislocation of the great city of Shanghai. Nevertheless, Heppner was self-reliant, energetic, and clever, and his story of finding niches for his skills that enabled him to survive in a precarious fashion is a tribute to human endurance. In 1945, after the liberation of China, Heppner found a responsible position with the American forces there. He and his wife, whom he had met and married in the ghetto, arrived in the United States in 1947 with only eleven dollars but boundless hope and energy. Heppner's account of the Shanghai ghetto is as vivid to him now as it was then. His admiration for his new country and his later success in business do not, however, obscure for him the shameful failure of the Allies to furnish a refuge for Jews before, during, and after the war.
Author | : Mikhail Beĭzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : 9780893574208 |
"In "Relief in Time of Need" historian Michael Beizer chronicles the efforts of the Joint Distribution Committee, the world's leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization, to aid victims of pogroms, World War I, and the violence of revolution and civil war in Russia and the new Soviet state in the years 1914-1924"--
Author | : Bernice Kazis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Boston Region (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jaclyn Granick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108495028 |
The untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands.