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Unit 5: Defining Refugees

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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

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