Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: Jewish studies

A roundup of recent work, relevant publications, resources, and calls for papers related to migrant knowledge.

#MigKnow Notes 15

Examines letters written to RELICO during the war by individuals seeking to share knowledge with loved ones or to receive information about them. Contextualizing the letters allows us to better appreciate the personalized knowledge transfer that occurred on a mass scale.

‘I beg you again from my heart to help me find my sister’: RELICO and the Need for Knowledge

Joseph Malherek has recently published the book Free-Market Socialists with Central European University Press. He also contributed an article to Dynamics of Emigration, edited by Stefan Berger and Philipp Müller and published by Berghahn Books.

New Book from the Network: Central European Jewish Socialist Refugees in the US

Anne-Christin Klotz has published a new book with De Gruyter, Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland, analyzing the Yiddish press in Poland, 1930-1941.

New Book from the Network: Yiddish Press in Poland in the Nazi Era

Anne-Christin Klotz

Klotz shows how Yiddish travelogues functioned as purveyors of knowledge about destination countries for potential Polish-Jewish refugees.

More than Tourism: Re-reading Yiddish Travelogues as Sources of Migrant Knowledge

Anne-Christin Klotz

Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann, and Anne Schenderlein have a new book, Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America (Palgrave, 2022).

New Book from the Network: Jewish Consumer Cultures

In this two-part piece about Jewish refugee photographers, the authors "travel to another historical context to inquire about what migrants and refugees 'knew' and how they choose to communicate their knowledge in their photographic work."

Displacement in Stills: German-Jewish Photographers on the Move

Sheer Ganor
Rebekka Grossmann

Finding suitable teaching materials to prepare Jewish children and youth for their new lives in Palestine after having survived the Holocaust presented a unique set of challenges.

Some Challenges for Knowledge Transfer in Jewish Displaced Persons Camps after World War II

Matthias Springborn

Using oral history, the author explores how a Polish Jewish family "used knowledge as a strategy not merely to survive but to build a new life" in what turned out to be a highly contingent transit process.

Knowledge as a Strategy on the Migratory Routes of Polish Jewish Survivors after World War II

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj

Through playtime, Jewish refugee children in Shanghai acquired specific knowledge about their new home through sources unavailable to adults refugees.

The Power of Play: Jewish Refugee Children in World War II Shanghai

The work of both Hans Rosenberg and Raul Hilberg was initially marginalized, but later entered the mainstream of German historiography. Why? What role did migration play in their work and its reception?

Marginalized Migrant Knowledge: The Reception of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in West Germany after 1945

Explores two points in U.S. past when Jewish history and migration studies intersected: 19th-century studies of Jewish migration by local community organizations; and role played by Jewish social scientists in shaping modern migration studies.

Acquiring Knowledge About Migration: The Jewish Origins of Migration Studies

Tobias Brinkmann

The author expected to find files in Paris for his study of Franco-Yiddishness in the interwar period, but they had wandered elsewhere. His surprise led him to consider "the migratory history of knowledge and knowledge-making."

Following the Archives: Migrating Documents and their Changing Meanings