Libby Garland
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226122458
- eISBN:
- 9780226122595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226122595.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter explores how established Jewish organizations confronted the legal conundrums the quota laws posed. It examines Jewish leaders’ responses to the illegal immigration of Jews over the ...
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This chapter explores how established Jewish organizations confronted the legal conundrums the quota laws posed. It examines Jewish leaders’ responses to the illegal immigration of Jews over the Mexico-Texas border and to the plight of Jews stranded in Europe with U.S visas rendered defunct by the Immigration Act of 1924. The quota laws posed new dilemmas for American Jewish leaders, pitting their desire to operate in solidarity with Jewish migrants against their need to be regarded as law-abiding Americans. Moreover, there were a number of gray areas that remained in the laws themselves. Jewish leaders exploited this lack of clarity in their efforts to shape the regime of U.S. immigration law as best they could. Whenever possible, they sought to engage in a strategic balancing act, trying to argue the cases of Jewish migrants without seeming to encourage or condone any law-breaking on the part of those migrants.Less
This chapter explores how established Jewish organizations confronted the legal conundrums the quota laws posed. It examines Jewish leaders’ responses to the illegal immigration of Jews over the Mexico-Texas border and to the plight of Jews stranded in Europe with U.S visas rendered defunct by the Immigration Act of 1924. The quota laws posed new dilemmas for American Jewish leaders, pitting their desire to operate in solidarity with Jewish migrants against their need to be regarded as law-abiding Americans. Moreover, there were a number of gray areas that remained in the laws themselves. Jewish leaders exploited this lack of clarity in their efforts to shape the regime of U.S. immigration law as best they could. Whenever possible, they sought to engage in a strategic balancing act, trying to argue the cases of Jewish migrants without seeming to encourage or condone any law-breaking on the part of those migrants.
Libby Garland
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226122458
- eISBN:
- 9780226122595
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226122595.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Stolen Borders tells the history of the Jewish illegal immigration occasioned by the nation-based, restrictive immigration quotas implemented by federal laws passed in 1921 and 1924. A chaotic ...
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Stolen Borders tells the history of the Jewish illegal immigration occasioned by the nation-based, restrictive immigration quotas implemented by federal laws passed in 1921 and 1924. A chaotic underground of illegal immigration emerged in the wake of these quota laws, which barred nearly all immigrants from Asia and most from southern and eastern Europe, people widely considered inferior and “undesirable.” In the years after the quotas, Jewish migrants sailed into New York with fake German passports and came into Florida from Cuba, hidden in the hold of boats loaded with contraband liquor. This book explores the responses that government officials, journalists, Jewish organizations, alien smugglers, and migrants themselves had to this unsanctioned flow of people over U.S. borders. Ultimately, Stolen Borders challenges a central narrative of U.S. historiography—the narrative of the “closing of the gates” to European immigrants in 1924. It demonstrates that the “gates” did not simply close. Rather, the reordering of the nation’s boundaries in the quota era happened unevenly, confusedly, and with much contention. The book also traces the process through which Jews came to be associated with, and then to be uncoupled from, “illegal alienness.” We know in retrospect that Jews, like other European ethnics, ultimately escaped the category of “illegal alienness”—despite their history of illegal entry—in a way that, for example, Mexicans have not. How this happened has been less well understood. Yet, in its twists and turns this story offers compelling insights into the contingent nature of citizenship, belonging, and Americanness.Less
Stolen Borders tells the history of the Jewish illegal immigration occasioned by the nation-based, restrictive immigration quotas implemented by federal laws passed in 1921 and 1924. A chaotic underground of illegal immigration emerged in the wake of these quota laws, which barred nearly all immigrants from Asia and most from southern and eastern Europe, people widely considered inferior and “undesirable.” In the years after the quotas, Jewish migrants sailed into New York with fake German passports and came into Florida from Cuba, hidden in the hold of boats loaded with contraband liquor. This book explores the responses that government officials, journalists, Jewish organizations, alien smugglers, and migrants themselves had to this unsanctioned flow of people over U.S. borders. Ultimately, Stolen Borders challenges a central narrative of U.S. historiography—the narrative of the “closing of the gates” to European immigrants in 1924. It demonstrates that the “gates” did not simply close. Rather, the reordering of the nation’s boundaries in the quota era happened unevenly, confusedly, and with much contention. The book also traces the process through which Jews came to be associated with, and then to be uncoupled from, “illegal alienness.” We know in retrospect that Jews, like other European ethnics, ultimately escaped the category of “illegal alienness”—despite their history of illegal entry—in a way that, for example, Mexicans have not. How this happened has been less well understood. Yet, in its twists and turns this story offers compelling insights into the contingent nature of citizenship, belonging, and Americanness.
Libby Garland
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226122458
- eISBN:
- 9780226122595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226122595.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The Holocaust, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Cold War, postwar American prosperity and the American civil rights movement all recast debates about race, immigration, and law. Chapter ...
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The Holocaust, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Cold War, postwar American prosperity and the American civil rights movement all recast debates about race, immigration, and law. Chapter Six traces how these forces, along with ongoing American Jewish activism, helped redefine the relationship between Jews and U.S. immigration law, and complete the process of severing the association between Jews and illegal immigration. The new language of “refugees” helped to validate the claims that European migrants had on the nation. So did the 1965 abolition of the quota system, which had come to be seen as an embarrassing legacy of a racist past. During this same period, illegal immigration increasingly came to be defined as nearly synonymous with Mexican immigration, a racialized equation which, in turn, helped erase the history of the illegal European incursions of the prewar period.Less
The Holocaust, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Cold War, postwar American prosperity and the American civil rights movement all recast debates about race, immigration, and law. Chapter Six traces how these forces, along with ongoing American Jewish activism, helped redefine the relationship between Jews and U.S. immigration law, and complete the process of severing the association between Jews and illegal immigration. The new language of “refugees” helped to validate the claims that European migrants had on the nation. So did the 1965 abolition of the quota system, which had come to be seen as an embarrassing legacy of a racist past. During this same period, illegal immigration increasingly came to be defined as nearly synonymous with Mexican immigration, a racialized equation which, in turn, helped erase the history of the illegal European incursions of the prewar period.
Robin Ostow
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199934249
- eISBN:
- 9780190254704
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199934249.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter examines exhibition of Jewish immigration in Jewish museums and immigration museums. These include those exhibitions in museums in western countries with large Jewish populations such as ...
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This chapter examines exhibition of Jewish immigration in Jewish museums and immigration museums. These include those exhibitions in museums in western countries with large Jewish populations such as the U.S., Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany. This chapter explores points of dialogue and dissonance among exhibits in these museums and strategies of inclusion and exclusion in the exhibits and in the operations of the respective museums.Less
This chapter examines exhibition of Jewish immigration in Jewish museums and immigration museums. These include those exhibitions in museums in western countries with large Jewish populations such as the U.S., Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany. This chapter explores points of dialogue and dissonance among exhibits in these museums and strategies of inclusion and exclusion in the exhibits and in the operations of the respective museums.
Libby Garland
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226122458
- eISBN:
- 9780226122595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226122595.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter Three explores the underground of Jewish organizing around migration, namely the profit-driven world of Jewish alien smuggling. Like legitimate Jewish organizations, smuggling rings sought to ...
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Chapter Three explores the underground of Jewish organizing around migration, namely the profit-driven world of Jewish alien smuggling. Like legitimate Jewish organizations, smuggling rings sought to shape the ways the quota laws functioned in reality. The chapter demonstrates that there was a symbiotic relationship between government mechanisms of enforcement and smuggling networks. Each provided the other with a reason for being, and each shaped the strategies the other used to achieve their goals. Tracing the emergence of this underworld, moreover, sheds light on how the very act of migration increasingly came to be associated with criminality during this era, helping to create a national conception of the dangers posed by “smuggled aliens.”Less
Chapter Three explores the underground of Jewish organizing around migration, namely the profit-driven world of Jewish alien smuggling. Like legitimate Jewish organizations, smuggling rings sought to shape the ways the quota laws functioned in reality. The chapter demonstrates that there was a symbiotic relationship between government mechanisms of enforcement and smuggling networks. Each provided the other with a reason for being, and each shaped the strategies the other used to achieve their goals. Tracing the emergence of this underworld, moreover, sheds light on how the very act of migration increasingly came to be associated with criminality during this era, helping to create a national conception of the dangers posed by “smuggled aliens.”
Libby Garland
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226122458
- eISBN:
- 9780226122595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226122595.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter Four examines Jewish migrants’ experiences with illegal immigration in the years following the quota laws, experiences that show the extent to which illegal immigration to the United States ...
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Chapter Four examines Jewish migrants’ experiences with illegal immigration in the years following the quota laws, experiences that show the extent to which illegal immigration to the United States was embedded in a complicated set of interactions between individuals and the newly established international regime of national borders and identity documents. Looking at individuals’ migration stories broadens the frame of reference beyond U.S. law, and beyond the moment in which migrants entered the United States illegally. This approach also demonstrates how unclear the boundaries between legal and illegal migration could be from the point of view of individuals struggling to make the best choices amidst the chaos and danger of post-World War I Europe. This chapter also examines the underworld of temporary “passing” in which illegal immigrants participated when they were smuggled into the country. Such masquerade challenged the fundamental categories of the quota laws even as it relied on them.Less
Chapter Four examines Jewish migrants’ experiences with illegal immigration in the years following the quota laws, experiences that show the extent to which illegal immigration to the United States was embedded in a complicated set of interactions between individuals and the newly established international regime of national borders and identity documents. Looking at individuals’ migration stories broadens the frame of reference beyond U.S. law, and beyond the moment in which migrants entered the United States illegally. This approach also demonstrates how unclear the boundaries between legal and illegal migration could be from the point of view of individuals struggling to make the best choices amidst the chaos and danger of post-World War I Europe. This chapter also examines the underworld of temporary “passing” in which illegal immigrants participated when they were smuggled into the country. Such masquerade challenged the fundamental categories of the quota laws even as it relied on them.
Libby Garland
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226122458
- eISBN:
- 9780226122595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226122595.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter Five explores the issue of internal “border control” in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. It investigates the battles over alien registration laws requiring all non-naturalized ...
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Chapter Five explores the issue of internal “border control” in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. It investigates the battles over alien registration laws requiring all non-naturalized foreigners to register with the government. American Jews consistently opposed these laws and led the fight against their passage and implementation. This chapter, which focuses in particular on the fate of a state alien registration law passed in Michigan in 1931, argues that Jews ultimately escaped the specter of illegal alienness in part through their own political efforts in the face of such controversies.Less
Chapter Five explores the issue of internal “border control” in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. It investigates the battles over alien registration laws requiring all non-naturalized foreigners to register with the government. American Jews consistently opposed these laws and led the fight against their passage and implementation. This chapter, which focuses in particular on the fate of a state alien registration law passed in Michigan in 1931, argues that Jews ultimately escaped the specter of illegal alienness in part through their own political efforts in the face of such controversies.
Martin Bunton
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199211081
- eISBN:
- 9780191695797
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211081.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This book focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of a broader British imperial administration — a fact often masked by Jewish immigration and land purchase in Palestine. The ...
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This book focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of a broader British imperial administration — a fact often masked by Jewish immigration and land purchase in Palestine. The book's research reveals clear links to colonial practice in India, Sudan, and Cyprus amongst other places. It argues that land officials’ views on sound land management were derived from their own experiences of rural England, and that this was far more influential on the shaping of land policies than the promise of a Jewish National Home. The book reveals how the British were intent on preserving the status quo of Ottoman land law, which (when few Britons could read Ottoman or were well grounded in its legal codes) led to a series of translations, interpretations, and hence new applications of land law. The sense of importance the British attributed to their work surveying and registering properties and transactions is captured in the efforts of British officials to microfilm all of their records at the height of the Second World War. Despite this, however, land policies remained in flux.Less
This book focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of a broader British imperial administration — a fact often masked by Jewish immigration and land purchase in Palestine. The book's research reveals clear links to colonial practice in India, Sudan, and Cyprus amongst other places. It argues that land officials’ views on sound land management were derived from their own experiences of rural England, and that this was far more influential on the shaping of land policies than the promise of a Jewish National Home. The book reveals how the British were intent on preserving the status quo of Ottoman land law, which (when few Britons could read Ottoman or were well grounded in its legal codes) led to a series of translations, interpretations, and hence new applications of land law. The sense of importance the British attributed to their work surveying and registering properties and transactions is captured in the efforts of British officials to microfilm all of their records at the height of the Second World War. Despite this, however, land policies remained in flux.
Gabriel Sheffer
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198279945
- eISBN:
- 9780191684326
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198279945.003.0018
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Toward the end of 1949, the first year of its independence, the Israeli government was forced to deal with menacing developments on both the international and the internal fronts. On the ...
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Toward the end of 1949, the first year of its independence, the Israeli government was forced to deal with menacing developments on both the international and the internal fronts. On the international plane, the government was primarily worried by the escalating Cold War. This deterioration was created by the growing awareness of the Soviet Union becoming a super power, of its nuclear capability, and its firm control over the Eastern bloc, which in turn caused the Americans to formulate and adhere to the doctrine of containment and to redeploy some of their forces in new bases in what became known as the Northern Tier and in the core Middle East. Consequently the Israelis became aware that escalation in the Cold War might affect Israel's ability to maintain its policy of non-alignment, and thereby create far-reaching effects on several aspects of its international politics, including weapons supply by and Jewish immigration from the Eastern bloc on the one hand, and American aid on the other.Less
Toward the end of 1949, the first year of its independence, the Israeli government was forced to deal with menacing developments on both the international and the internal fronts. On the international plane, the government was primarily worried by the escalating Cold War. This deterioration was created by the growing awareness of the Soviet Union becoming a super power, of its nuclear capability, and its firm control over the Eastern bloc, which in turn caused the Americans to formulate and adhere to the doctrine of containment and to redeploy some of their forces in new bases in what became known as the Northern Tier and in the core Middle East. Consequently the Israelis became aware that escalation in the Cold War might affect Israel's ability to maintain its policy of non-alignment, and thereby create far-reaching effects on several aspects of its international politics, including weapons supply by and Jewish immigration from the Eastern bloc on the one hand, and American aid on the other.
Samuel Weiss
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814757437
- eISBN:
- 9780814763469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814757437.003.0060
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter is a critique of Zionism in response to the Great Arab Revolt that raged in Palestine between 1936 and 1939. Authored by Socialist Party member Samuel Weiss, the chapter argues that ...
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This chapter is a critique of Zionism in response to the Great Arab Revolt that raged in Palestine between 1936 and 1939. Authored by Socialist Party member Samuel Weiss, the chapter argues that Zionism, in accordance with its illusion of building a homeland for Jews in Palestine, is constantly pursuing the policy of taking over the economic positions of the native population. However, Weiss also calls for open Jewish immigration to Palestine, contrary to the demand of Arab nationalists and many left-wing anti-Zionists. The chapter closes with a socialist vision that can resolve the Jewish problem in Palestine and promote working-class unity among the Jews and Arabs.Less
This chapter is a critique of Zionism in response to the Great Arab Revolt that raged in Palestine between 1936 and 1939. Authored by Socialist Party member Samuel Weiss, the chapter argues that Zionism, in accordance with its illusion of building a homeland for Jews in Palestine, is constantly pursuing the policy of taking over the economic positions of the native population. However, Weiss also calls for open Jewish immigration to Palestine, contrary to the demand of Arab nationalists and many left-wing anti-Zionists. The chapter closes with a socialist vision that can resolve the Jewish problem in Palestine and promote working-class unity among the Jews and Arabs.
Susan Pedersen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199570485
- eISBN:
- 9780191773709
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570485.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History, Political History
No territory was more central to the mandates system than Palestine. Britain had always insisted that its Palestine policy be approved in Geneva, and went to some lengths to secure international ...
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No territory was more central to the mandates system than Palestine. Britain had always insisted that its Palestine policy be approved in Geneva, and went to some lengths to secure international support for a Zionist pledge that its allies initially thought misguided. In the 1930s, however, this ‘internationalization’ of Palestine policymaking lessened Britain's room to manoeuvre. As the 1929 riots and the 1936 Arab Revolt revealed the depth of Arab opposition to continued Jewish immigration, British statesmen looked first for new ways (including partition) to balance both communities' claims, and then to retreat from the Balfour pledge. Yet, most members of the Mandates Commission, as well as increasingly anti-Semitic East European statesmen, had come to see Palestine largely as a destination for European Jews and opposed any such moves. This chapter tracks that complex history, showing how the inflexibility fostered by ‘internationalization’ drove a number of British statesmen to condemn a mandates regime they had largely created.Less
No territory was more central to the mandates system than Palestine. Britain had always insisted that its Palestine policy be approved in Geneva, and went to some lengths to secure international support for a Zionist pledge that its allies initially thought misguided. In the 1930s, however, this ‘internationalization’ of Palestine policymaking lessened Britain's room to manoeuvre. As the 1929 riots and the 1936 Arab Revolt revealed the depth of Arab opposition to continued Jewish immigration, British statesmen looked first for new ways (including partition) to balance both communities' claims, and then to retreat from the Balfour pledge. Yet, most members of the Mandates Commission, as well as increasingly anti-Semitic East European statesmen, had come to see Palestine largely as a destination for European Jews and opposed any such moves. This chapter tracks that complex history, showing how the inflexibility fostered by ‘internationalization’ drove a number of British statesmen to condemn a mandates regime they had largely created.
Ronen Shamir
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804787062
- eISBN:
- 9780804788687
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804787062.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
The main argument of this chapter is that the electric grid participated in the assembly of a Jewish economy, incrementally distinct from both the all-Palestine economy and from a counter-factual ...
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The main argument of this chapter is that the electric grid participated in the assembly of a Jewish economy, incrementally distinct from both the all-Palestine economy and from a counter-factual Arab economy. Jewish immigration in the mid 1920s’ created new possibilities for grid-expansion. Efforts to modernize agricultural methods and to establish new industries had mostly been a Jewish affair. Powered by wired-electricity, the grid not only facilitated growing inequality between Jews and Arabs but also contributed to the collection of data that ultimately established the reality of a distinct Jewish economy. The chapter thereby established links between the statistical and scientific work which is involved in the creation of ’the economy’ and the development of measurable and quantifiable electric supply. Still, the chapter also exposes the unique logic of the grid, one that cannot be reduced to Zionist interests.Less
The main argument of this chapter is that the electric grid participated in the assembly of a Jewish economy, incrementally distinct from both the all-Palestine economy and from a counter-factual Arab economy. Jewish immigration in the mid 1920s’ created new possibilities for grid-expansion. Efforts to modernize agricultural methods and to establish new industries had mostly been a Jewish affair. Powered by wired-electricity, the grid not only facilitated growing inequality between Jews and Arabs but also contributed to the collection of data that ultimately established the reality of a distinct Jewish economy. The chapter thereby established links between the statistical and scientific work which is involved in the creation of ’the economy’ and the development of measurable and quantifiable electric supply. Still, the chapter also exposes the unique logic of the grid, one that cannot be reduced to Zionist interests.
Lauren Banko
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474415507
- eISBN:
- 9781474427074
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415507.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter offers further insight on citizenship in Palestine after 1939 and until the end of the mandate in 1948, and the changing levels of the Arabs' political subjectivity. The differences ...
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This chapter offers further insight on citizenship in Palestine after 1939 and until the end of the mandate in 1948, and the changing levels of the Arabs' political subjectivity. The differences between the multiple doctrines, vocabularies, expressions, and concepts of citizenship during the first two decades of the mandate administration are reflected in the legislation on citizenship passed by the British administration and in the reactions by the Arab citizens to that legislation. It explores the immediate reactions of Great Britain and the Palestine administration to the increased Jewish immigration to the territory and the changes made to the mandate's citizenship legislation in the wake of the Peel Commission's recommendations.Less
This chapter offers further insight on citizenship in Palestine after 1939 and until the end of the mandate in 1948, and the changing levels of the Arabs' political subjectivity. The differences between the multiple doctrines, vocabularies, expressions, and concepts of citizenship during the first two decades of the mandate administration are reflected in the legislation on citizenship passed by the British administration and in the reactions by the Arab citizens to that legislation. It explores the immediate reactions of Great Britain and the Palestine administration to the increased Jewish immigration to the territory and the changes made to the mandate's citizenship legislation in the wake of the Peel Commission's recommendations.
Mark Solbin
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520227170
- eISBN:
- 9780520935655
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520227170.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
The music now known as klezmer took root in the United States during the period of heaviest eastern European Jewish immigration, between 1880 and 1924. Klezmorim migrated from many parts of the ...
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The music now known as klezmer took root in the United States during the period of heaviest eastern European Jewish immigration, between 1880 and 1924. Klezmorim migrated from many parts of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires and from Romania and carried with them musical traditions which, while diverse, also share a great deal in common. At first, virtually all of the klezmer orchestra leaders were violinists. Some brought over typical European klezmer instruments such as the tsimbl (hammered dulcimer), straw fiddle (folk xylophone), harmonica (small accordion), bohemian flute, and rotary valve cornet. By the 1920s, Jewish dance music instrumentation had fallen more in line with typical American vaudeville or concert bands of the time. By then, a large proportion of the European Jewish ritual music repertoire had also been abandoned, along with much of the badkhones (wedding jester) tradition, which only lived on in certain Hasidic communities.Less
The music now known as klezmer took root in the United States during the period of heaviest eastern European Jewish immigration, between 1880 and 1924. Klezmorim migrated from many parts of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires and from Romania and carried with them musical traditions which, while diverse, also share a great deal in common. At first, virtually all of the klezmer orchestra leaders were violinists. Some brought over typical European klezmer instruments such as the tsimbl (hammered dulcimer), straw fiddle (folk xylophone), harmonica (small accordion), bohemian flute, and rotary valve cornet. By the 1920s, Jewish dance music instrumentation had fallen more in line with typical American vaudeville or concert bands of the time. By then, a large proportion of the European Jewish ritual music repertoire had also been abandoned, along with much of the badkhones (wedding jester) tradition, which only lived on in certain Hasidic communities.
Lauren Banko
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474415507
- eISBN:
- 9781474427074
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415507.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, namely to present a new understanding of the Arabs' reactions to colonialism and Jewish immigration into Palestine by framing resistance to ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, namely to present a new understanding of the Arabs' reactions to colonialism and Jewish immigration into Palestine by framing resistance to mandate policies and the early stages of the development of the political project of Palestinian nationalism through the articulated appeals, discussions, ideologies and demands for a political, as opposed to simply legal, identity. The book aims to trace how, and to what extent, citizenship became politically linked to nationality and civic identity as a reaction to the legal parameters of the British-created citizenship status in the post-1918 period. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, namely to present a new understanding of the Arabs' reactions to colonialism and Jewish immigration into Palestine by framing resistance to mandate policies and the early stages of the development of the political project of Palestinian nationalism through the articulated appeals, discussions, ideologies and demands for a political, as opposed to simply legal, identity. The book aims to trace how, and to what extent, citizenship became politically linked to nationality and civic identity as a reaction to the legal parameters of the British-created citizenship status in the post-1918 period. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Richard I. Cohen (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190912628
- eISBN:
- 9780190912659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0050
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism, Religion and Society
This chapter reviews the book South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational Perspective (2015), by Rebeca Raijman. In South African Jews in Israel, Raijman explores Jewish ...
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This chapter reviews the book South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational Perspective (2015), by Rebeca Raijman. In South African Jews in Israel, Raijman explores Jewish immigration from South Africa to Israel and post-migration adaptation and mobility within the latter country. Drawing on a mainly quantitative approach as well as qualitative insights derived from the personal experiences of immigrants, Raijman delves into the linguistic, economic, and identificational assimilation of South African Jews in Israel. Her book provides a solid, balanced discussion of social theory and makes use of conceptualization, international comparison, and in-depth analysis, while also dispelling some of the myths and legends that continue to dominate the popular perception of aliyah.Less
This chapter reviews the book South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational Perspective (2015), by Rebeca Raijman. In South African Jews in Israel, Raijman explores Jewish immigration from South Africa to Israel and post-migration adaptation and mobility within the latter country. Drawing on a mainly quantitative approach as well as qualitative insights derived from the personal experiences of immigrants, Raijman delves into the linguistic, economic, and identificational assimilation of South African Jews in Israel. Her book provides a solid, balanced discussion of social theory and makes use of conceptualization, international comparison, and in-depth analysis, while also dispelling some of the myths and legends that continue to dominate the popular perception of aliyah.
Janet Wolff
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719089428
- eISBN:
- 9781781707340
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089428.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Janet Wolff's essay is structured around the move from England to the United States, with the dislocation of perception that comes with that shift. It operates as part memoir and part family history, ...
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Janet Wolff's essay is structured around the move from England to the United States, with the dislocation of perception that comes with that shift. It operates as part memoir and part family history, these two strands also intersecting with other people's stories. Visual images also play a part in the story – paintings, diary pages and facsimile documents.Less
Janet Wolff's essay is structured around the move from England to the United States, with the dislocation of perception that comes with that shift. It operates as part memoir and part family history, these two strands also intersecting with other people's stories. Visual images also play a part in the story – paintings, diary pages and facsimile documents.
