Religious Images and Political Concerns

DOZENS UPON DOZENS of authors have described and analyzed social, economic, and political reasons for the Great Migration of eastern European Jews to America around the turn of the twentieth century. Very briefly, the immigrants began to leave Russia and other eastern European lands especially after...

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Published inSocial Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art p. 13
Main Author Matthew Baigell
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Syracuse University Press 03.04.2015
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied arts
Architecture
Art genres and movements
Art history
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Buildings
Cartoons
Commercial art
Communications
Ethnic groups
Ethnography
Ethnology
Ethnoreligious groups
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
History of religion
Illustration
Institutional buildings
Jewish Americans
Jewish art
Jewish culture
Jewish history
Jewish migration
Jewish peoples
Jewish politics
Jewish socialism
Jewish studies
Practical theology
Prayer
Religion
Religious buildings
Religious practices
Social sciences
Synagogues
Theology
Visual arts
Written communication
Written correspondence
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Summary:DOZENS UPON DOZENS of authors have described and analyzed social, economic, and political reasons for the Great Migration of eastern European Jews to America around the turn of the twentieth century. Very briefly, the immigrants began to leave Russia and other eastern European lands especially after the assassination of Czar Alexander III in 1881 because of job discrimination, rising industrialization that hampered their small-business economy, and the economic and physical threats of pogroms (more than nine hundred of them recorded by 1905) (Bloom 1960; Klier and Lambroza 1992; Levin c. 1987; Mendelsohn 1970; Michels 2005; Vital 1999, 283–570). Most