“This slim volume is packed with facts and insights into a little known subject, which has recently, however, been the object of much research.” · Journal of Borderlands Studies“This is a major contribution to our understanding of a process which in a few decades radically transformed the geography of the Jewish world.” · Antony Polonsky,United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University“This volume will prove to be a very valuable addition to the growing literature on Eastern European migrations as a passage into Western Europe and beyond between 1880 and World War II.” · Dorothee Schneider, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“[In this volume] migration takes a novel point of departure: a focus on the phenomenon of transmigrants as a key to understanding wider patterns of migration…The scholars contributing to this volume of essays concretize in rich detail, as we as readers and students of the subject have never really been able to do before, what trans-Atlantic migration actually felt like to those involved. The departure of Brinkmann and his colleagues from older migration studies models is striking.” · Eli Lederhendler, Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
