What’s next?

You are welcome to explore other units on the modern history of migration and mobility, particularly about refugees, tourism, and deportation.

Suggested Readings

(Primary Sources in bold)

Brinkmann, Tobias. “Protective Umbrella: The Transnational Jewish Support Network,” in Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), 101–128.

Schrover, Marlou, Teuntje Vosters, and Irial Glynn. “NGOs and West European Migration Governance (1860s until Present): Introduction to a Special Issue.” Journal of Migration History 5, no. 2 (2019): 177–199. https://doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00502001

Furman, Joshua J. “‘A Good Place to Emigrate to Now’: Recruiting Eastern European Jews for the Galveston Movement in 1907.” Southern Jewish History 25 (2022): 99–137.
https://www.academia.edu/106425172/Joshua_J_Furman_Primary_Sources_A_Good_Place_to_Emigrate_to_Now_Recruiting_Eastern_European_Jews_for_the_Galveston_Movement_in_1907?uc-sb-sw=40477309

Statutes of the Kyiv Jewish Emigration Society, State Archive of Kyiv Oblast (DAKO), Fond 444, Inventory 1, File 1, pp. 1–8.

Strakhova Anastasiia. “Unexpected Allies: Imperial Russian Support of Jewish Emigration at the Time of Its Legal Ban, 1881–1914,” Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, no. 20 (December 2021), https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/13064.

Multimedia and Digital Resources

Resource Collection: Records of the Jewish Immigrant Information Bureau (Galveston, Tex.) Galveston Immigration Plan.

Resource Collection: The Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation – Online collections on migration history, diaspora, and digital exhibitions

Lecture: The Other Ellis Island: Jewish Immigration Through Galveston, 1907-1914 with Guest Dr. Josh Furman

Podcast: The Galveston Movement, Jewish immigration.

Podcast Collection: Collection of Podcasts “Migrations: Eastern European and Russian Jewish”

Lecture: Leaving Mother Russia by Anastasia Strakhova