Research Catalog

Title

Social networks and the Jewish migration between Poland and Palestine, 1924-1928 / Magdalena M. Wrobel Bloom.

Author

Wrobel, Magdalena

Publication

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : PL Academic Research, [2016]

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Details

Description

274 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

This book analyses the role of social networks in the process of migration from the perspective of their international social ties. Based on stories of Polish Jews who migrated between Poland and Palestine in the 1920s, the author presents all stages of the journey and shows how networks of friends and families spread in different countries contributed to the migration experience. Presenting these stories through correspondence, she shows how migrants were not only motivated by traditional push and pull factors, or ideology, but also by dependence on other members of their social network.

Series Statement

Studies in Jewish history and memory, 2364-1975 ; volume 8

Uniform Title

Studies in Jewish history and memory ; v. 8.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Jews > Poland > History > 20th century
• Jews > Poland > Migrations
• Jews, Polish > Palestine > History > 20th century
• Emigration and immigration
• Jews
• Jews > Migrations
• Jews, Polish
• Juden
• Auswanderung
• Einwanderung
• Soziales Netzwerk
• Jews > Poland > History > 20th century
• Jews > Poland > Migrations
• Jews, Polish > Social networks
• Jews, Polish > Eretz Israel > History > 20th century
• Palestine > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century
• Middle East > Palestine
• Poland
• Palästina
• Polen
• Eretz Israel > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Text in English, quotations transliterated from the Yiddish, Hebrew, German, and Polish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Review of the Literature 22 -- Methodology 29 -- Problems with Chronology and the Term "Aliyah" 32 -- Use of Term Social Networks 35 -- Problems Related to Archival Sources 36 -- Structure of the Book 37 -- Chapter 1 Jews in Poland in the 1920s: Historical Background 41 -- Economic Crisis 42 -- The Status of Jews in Poland in the 1920s and Polish-Jewish Relationships 47 -- The Long Tradition of Migration in Eastern Europe 54 -- Closing the Gates of the "goldene medine" 62 -- The Influence of the Zionist Movement on Polish Jewry after World War I 65 -- The Situation in Palestine 68 -- Chapter 2 "Who May Go to Palestine?": Information Campaign about Palestine in Poland in the mid-1920s 71 -- Non-critical Sources 74 -- Content of Non-critical Sources 79 -- Criticism of the Sources 92 -- Critical Sources 94 -- Conclusions: How Reliable and Influential Was the Information Campaign? 106 -- Chapter 3 Between Here and There 109 -- Theoretical Stage: Decision Making 111 -- Practical Stage: Preparation 125 -- Final Stage; On the Way to Palestine 146 -- Conclusions 154 -- Chapter 4 Palestine as a New "Homeland" or Staying between Different Spaces? 159 -- First Encounters with Palestine 161 -- Involvement in the Life of the Yishuv 170 -- Social Networks in Action: "Homesickness" and Functioning in Multiple Worlds 200 -- Encounters with the Arabs 207 -- Conclusions 210 -- Chapter 5 The Next Stage in the Journey: Returning to Poland versus Looking for a New Destination 213 -- The Start of Economic Stagnation in Palestine and the End of Mass Immigration 214 -- Jews Returning from Palestine -- Terminology and Interpretation 218 -- Why Some Polish Immigrants Left Palestine -- Case Studies 235 -- "Yerida" Versus "Return" in the Eyes of Polish Jews in Palestine and Poland 239 -- Conclusions 242.

ISBN

• 9783631675038
• 3631675038
• 9783653067880 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)
• 9783636706428 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9783631706435 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)
• 9783631706428 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016041797

OCLC

• ocn958469816
• 958469816
• SCSB-14422993

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library