Jews in new cities. Introduction

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Notes

1. Salo Baron, The Jewish Community: Its History and Structure to the American Revolution (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1942), vol. 1, 26.

2. Arthur Ruppin, Soziologie der Juden (Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1930), vol. 1, 118 (quote), 129.

3. Antony Polonsky, ‘Tarnow,’ 2010, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Tarnow (accessed September 4, 2023); Rebecca Kobrin, Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), 19–20; American Jewish Yearbook 46 (1944–1945): 491–503

4. Robert Liberles, Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History (New York: NYU Press, 1995), 16–26.

5. American Jewish Yearbook 20 (1918/19), 339–352; American Jewish Yearbook 44 (1942/43), 422–430; American Jewish Yearbook 51 (1950), 245–250; Ruppin, Soziologie der Juden, vol. 1, 67–88; ‘Jews in New York Number 906,400,’ New York Times, January, 27, 1912.

6. Daniel B. Schwartz, Ghetto: The History of a Word (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), 9–48; Benjamin Ravid, ‘All Ghettos Were Jewish Quarters but Not All Jewish Quarters Were Ghettos,’ in The Frankfurt Judengasse: Jewish Life in an Early Modern City, eds. Fritz Backhaus, Gisela Engel, Robert Liberles, and Margarete Schlüter. (London: Valentine Mitchell, 2010), 5–22.

7. David Sorkin, Jewish Emancipation: A History over Five Centuries (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), 72–81, 224–233; and Miriam Bodian, Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).

8. Saskia Coenen Snyder, Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013).

9. Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Geschichte der Eisenbahnreise: Zur Industrialisierung von Raum und Zeit im 19. Jahrhundert (Munich: Carl Hanser, 1977); John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), xviii; Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1991); Ewa Morawska, Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890–1940 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996); Dino Cinel, The National Integration of Italian Return Migration, 1870–1929 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

10. Marsha Rozenblit, The Jews of Vienna, 1867–1914: Assimilation and Identity (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1983), 13–98; Tobias Brinkmann, ‘From Hinterberlin to Berlin: Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Berlin before and after 1918,’ Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 7 (2008): 339–355; Kobrin, Jewish Bialystok.

11. Nathans, Beyond the Pale; Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century (Princeton: Princeton NJ University Press, 2004), 216–371; Jeffrey Lesser, Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

12. Mollie Lewis Nouwen, Oy, My Buenos Aires: Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2013); Gur Alroey, An Unpromising Land: Jewish Migration to Palestine in the early Twentieth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014).

13. John Simon, ‘At the Frontier: The South African Jewish Experience,’ in Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict, eds. Sander L. Gilman and Milton Shain (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), 67–90; Mendel Kaplan and Marian Robertson, Founders and Followers: Johannesburg Jewry, 1887–1915 (Cape Town: Vlaeberg Publishers, 1991). A noteworthy exception to this pattern was Australia. See Suzanne Rutland, Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1997), 76–106.

14. Joachim Schlör, Das Ich der Stadt. Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität, 1822–1938 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005).

15. John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955); George L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966).

16. Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race or the Basis of European History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916), 81, 186.

17. Arthur Ruppin, Die Juden der Gegenwart: Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Studie (Berlin: S. Calvary, 1904), 175, 267.

18. See James Belich, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) for the dramatic growth of cities during this period as the result of a ‘Settler Revolution.’

19. For a useful typology of cities see: Göran Therborn, Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global (London: Verso, 2017).

20. David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín, Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014).

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Tobias Brinkmann

Tobias Brinkmann is the Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History and Director of the Jewish Studies program at Penn State University, University Park, PA. His study Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2024.

Adam Mendelsohn

Adam D. Mendelsohn is Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author, most recently, of Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army (New York University Press, 2022).