Migration Research Project
In the years 2010 - 2016 the Nevzlin Center initiated and conducted an international research project on modern Jewish migration, aimed to renew the study of the East European Jewish diaspora, its history and social experience, through the integration of new perspectives in the field of migration studies. The project was rooted in the belief that a transnational approach could reconfigure the study of East European Jewry and its diaspora communities worldwide.
The project consisted of two stages, each stage approximately three years long. Each stage included collaborative efforts of an international research team as well as several scholarly events. and the project resulted in publication of special issues of the East European Jewish Affairs dedicated to the subject of Jewish Migrations.
First stage (2010-2012): Migration Regimes
Research team:
Kenneth Moss, Johns Hopkins University
Eli Lederhendler, Hebrew University
Frank Wolf, Osnabrűck University
Anna Lipphardt, Freiburg University
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Indiana University
Tammy Razi, Sapir College
Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan, Hebrew University
Concluding conference:
“Russian Jewish Migration Across Borders, Across Time,” Columbia University, October 2012. See program
Special issue on Jewish Migrations of East European Jewish Affairs, Volume 44, Issue 2-3 (2014).
Second Stage (2013-2015): Jewish Migration in Modern Times, a Case of Eastern Europe
Research Team:
David Feldman, University of London
Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Sciences
Eugene Tartakovsky, Tel Aviv University
Scott Ury, Tel Aviv University
Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan
Olena Bagno-Moldavsky, Bar Ilan University
Lukasz Górniok, Umeå University
Concluding workshop: Migration and Citizenship: Jewish Migration within and from Eastern Europe, 1815-2015, Warsaw, November 2015 (program).
Special issue on Jewish Migrations of East European Jewish Affairs, Volume 47, Issue 2-3 (2017)
