Patterns of Jewish Migration in the Russian Empire

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel is dedicated to the migration of the Jewish population in Late imperial Russia. Several key aspects of the Jewish migration will be presented. First of all, we will discuss the relationship between the Empire and the migration organizations as well as the involvement of imperial institutions in the migration process. The interpretation of the pogroms as a trigger for Jewish emigration from Russian Empire will be examined. Internal Jewish migration from the Pale of Settlement will be shown in the context of wider economic and socio-cultural processes. The aim of the panel is to show the origins of Eastern European Jewish migration and to consider these processes not only from the Jewish studies perspective but also from the perspective of the history of the Russian Empire.

Sub Unit

• History: Russian and Eurasian, 1800-1924

Chair

• Alison Orton, U of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• Refugees of the Pogroms?: The Jews from Russian Empire in Galicia in the Early 1880s - Oleksii Chebotarov, U St. Gallen (Switzerland)

• Internal Jewish Migration: on the Road to the Russian Imperial City: the Case of Kharkiv in the end of XIX Century - Artem Kharchenko, National Technical U Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine)

• Unexpected Allies: Imperial Russian Support of Jewish Emigration at the Time of Its Legal Ban, 1881-1917 - Anastasiia Strakhova, Emory U

Discussant

• Steven Nafziger, Williams College