East European Jews in Switzerland
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Tamar Lewinsky, Sandrine Mayoraz
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East European Jews in Switzerland
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110300710
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New Perspectives on Modern Jewish HistoryISSN
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1
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CHF 117.50
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Judentum
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English
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288
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< >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.
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Tamar Lewinsky
, Zentrum für Jüdische Studien, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Introduction
13
Part I Migration, Politics, and Networks
23
Les Russes – The Image of East European Jews in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Zurich
25
Jewish Political Emigration from Imperial Russia: Mapping the World in a Different Way
47
The Jewish Labor Bund in Switzerland
66
Some Russian Jewish Writers in Switzerland and the Valorization of Jewish Argument Style
89
Student Migration of Jews from Tsarist Russia to the Universities of Berne and Zurich, 1865-1914
112
Part II Individual Experiences, Switzerland, and the Literary Imagination
137
Kalman Marmor in Switzerland: Reconstructing a Sojourner’s Biography
137
East European Jewish Migration to Switzerland and the Formation of “New Women”
161
Ben-Ami’s Swiss Experience: Narrative and the Zionist Dream
190
“For the Pleasure of Life in Switzerland, I Had to Start Spitting Blood” Sholem Aleichem’s Scriptwriting Debut against the Background of the Beilis Case
211
Kabbalah, Dada, Communism: Meir Wiener’s Lehrjahre in Switzerland during World War I
226
Appendix I
245
Herzl and the First Congress
245
Appendix II
258
Fragments of an Unfinished Yiddish Novel
258
References
262
List of Contributors
279
List of Illustrations
281
Index
284
