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.


 

 

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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)

 

 

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