Points of Passage

Tobias Brinkmann is the Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Penn State University. His recent publications include Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2012); Migration und Transnationalität: Perspektiven deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte (Schöningh, 2012); and “Why Paul Nathan Attacked Albert Ballin: The Transatlantic Mass Migration and the Privatization of Prussia’s Eastern Border Inspection, 1886–1914,” Central European History (2010).

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsPoints of Passage: Reexamining Jewish Migrations from Eastern Europe after 1880Tobias BrinkmannPart I: Medicalization of BordersChapter 1. “[G]erms of anarchy, crime, disease and degeneracy”: Jewish Migration to the United States and the Medicalization of European Borders around 1900Barbara LüthiPart II: Transit through Scandinavia, Germany, and BritainChapter 2. Immigrants or Transmigrants? Eastern European Jews in Sweden, 1860–1914Carl Henrik CarlssonChapter 3. Emigrant Trains: Jewish Migration through Prussia and American “Remote Control,” 1880-1914Nicole Kvale EilersChapter 4. Transmigrants between Legal Restrictions and Private Charity: The Jews’ Temporary Shelter in London, 1885-1939Klaus WeberPart III: Atlantic PassagesChapter 5. The Improvement of Travel Conditions for Migrants Crossing the North Atlantic, 1900-1914Drew KeelingChapter 6. Russian-Jewish Transmigration and Scandinavian Shipping Companies: The Case of DFDS and the Atlantic Rate War of 1904-05Per Kristian SebakChapter 7. The Boys and Girls Not from Brazil: From Russia to Rio and Back Again Via Southampton and Hamburg, 1878-1880Tony KushnerBibliography

“This slim volume is packed with facts and insights into a little known subject, which has recently, however, been the object of much research.”  ·  Journal of Borderlands Studies“This is a major contribution to our understanding of a process which in a few decades radically transformed the geography of the Jewish world.”  ·  Antony Polonsky,United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University“This volume will prove to be a very valuable addition to the growing literature on Eastern European migrations as a passage into Western Europe and beyond between 1880 and World War II.”  ·  Dorothee Schneider, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“[In this volume] migration takes a novel point of departure: a focus on the phenomenon of transmigrants as a key to understanding wider patterns of migration…The scholars contributing to this volume of essays concretize in rich detail, as we as readers and students of the subject have never really been able to do before, what trans-Atlantic migration actually felt like to those involved. The departure of Brinkmann and his colleagues from older migration studies models is striking.”  ·  Eli Lederhendler, Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem