HIST 3603: Jewish Immigration: Global Immigration (Non-US)
Books
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The Jewish diaspora in Latin America : new studies on history and literature byISBN: 9781317945338Publication Date: 2019
Online Resources
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Visual history archive This link opens in a new windowContains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust taped in 56 countries and in 32 languages between 1994 and 1999. Most testimonies have been indexed for keywords at one-minute segments. Some videos may take 48 hours to load and view.
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Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenzi Jewry (LCAAJ)The Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), is an extraordinary resource for research in Yiddish language studies, consists of 5,755 hours of audio tape field interviews with Yiddish speaking informants collected between 1959 and 1972 and ca. 100,000 pages of accompanying linguistic field notes. The audio tapes have been digitized by Columbia Libraries' Preservation and Digital Conversion Division, and are available online through EYDES: Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Sources (http://www.eydes.de/Usr1A83F1A2ZI/)
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Central Archives for the History of the Jewish PeopleThe CAHJP is a critical archive for the History of the Jewish People, and includes a tremendous amount of files that deal with Jewish immigration. One of the largest collections in this area is the Jewish Colonization Association, founded by Baron Hirsch to assist Jews in traveling to new lands for better opportunities
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Refugees, relief and resettlement : forced migration and World War IIArchives of the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, 1933-1960 -- Records of the Department of State relating to the problems of relief and refugees in Europe arising from World War II and its aftermath, 1938-1949 -- Refugee files from the records of the Foreign Office, 1938-1950 -- Refugee records from the general correspondence files of the political departments of the Foreign Office, record group 371, 1938-1950 -- Refugee records from the public and judicial department collections of the British India Office, 1939-1952 -- Refugee records from the War Cabinet, the Colonial Office, the Home Office and the War Office, 1935-1949.
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Post-war Europe : refugees, exile and resettlement, 1945-1950Collection of "primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II." Topics covered include the administration of refugee camps across Europe including England, Germany, Italy, Hungary and Yugoslavia; displaced Persons Assembly Centre reports; Jewish Relief Unit field reports; British Military Government in Germany; Belsen DP Camp; Maclean Mission in Italy; Politics of the Refugee Crisis; and, strengthening of the Zionist cause.