Unit 5: Defining Refugees
What’s next?
Reading list
(Primary sources are in bold.)
Gatrell, Peter. The Making of the Modern Refugee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Klier, John D. Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881–1882. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Shpall, Leo. The Diary of Dr George Price. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, Vol. 40, No. 2 (December 1950), pp. 173-181.
Cahan, Abraham. Bleter fun mein Lebn. New York: Forverts, 1926.
Kuzmany, Bӧrries. “Jüdische Pogromflüchtlinge in Österreich 1881/82 und die Professionalisierung der internationalen Hilfe.” In Aufnahmeland Österreich. Über den Umgang mit Massenflucht seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, edited by B. Kuzmany and R. Garstenauer, 94–125. Vienna: New Academic Press, 2017.
Friedländer, Moritz, Fünf Wochen in Brody unter jüdisch-russischen Emigranten. Wien, 1882.
Multimedia and Digital Resources
Lecture: Reckoning with Refugeedom: Refugee voices in modern world history by Peter Gatrell
Lecture: Time-Travelling Concepts: Historicizing Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons by Sari Nauman
Talk: The Pogroms of 1881-1884 by Henry Abramson
Lecture: Pogroms in the Russian Empire and the Great Departure by Oleksii Chebotarov
Talk: Discussions on Displacement by Peter Gatrell and Ria Sunga
Podcast: Philipp Ther: The Outsiders by Social Europe
You’re now ready to move into Unit 6. Nationalizing the Landscape: Tourism and Belonging.