Tag: Amtisemitism
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Pogrom-Driven Migration: The Case of Kalarash
Were Jewish immigrants from the Pale of Settlement to the United States really driven by pogroms? This is a question with which I deal empirically, using data on migration and on events of anti-Jewish violence. But before zooming out to the large statistical picture, it is important to verify anecdotally that one can find particular…
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“Stop Your Cruel Oppression of the Jews”: Reading a Cartoon
When I present my work on the Jewish migration, I like using this cartoon in order to illustrate the traditional thesis that the Jewish migration from the Pale of Settlement was caused by the pogroms. It shows a Jewish town, on that right, that was hit by a pogrom, and a stream of Jewish refugees…
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The King is Dead, Long Live the… Wait, is it Good for the Jews?
“Is it Good for the Jews?” is a generations-old criterion for making sense of world events. Wars, revolutions, natural disasters, something colossal has happened, at the bottom line we want to know the only thing that matters – is it, or is it not? For the occasion of the abdication of Dutch Queen Beatrix and…
Yannay Spitzer 