Student Migration of Jews from Tsarist Russia to the Universities of Berne and Zurich, 1865-1914

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. East European Jewish Immigrants Between Two Worlds. A Preface v
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Migration, Politics, and Networks
6. Les Russes – The Image of East European Jews in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Zurich. 13
7. Jewish Political Emigration from Imperial Russia: Mapping the World in a Different Way 35
8. The Jewish Labor Bund in Switzerland 54
9. Some Russian Jewish Writers in Switzerland and the Valorization of Jewish Argument Style 77
10. Student Migration of Jews from Tsarist Russia to the Universities of Berne and Zurich, 1865-1914 99
11. Part II. Individual Experiences, Switzerland, and the Literary Imagination
12. Kalman Marmor in Switzerland: Reconstructing a Sojourner’s Biography 125
13. East European Jewish Migration to Switzerland and the Formation of “New Women”. 149
14. Ben-Ami’s Swiss Experience: Narrative and the Zionist Dream 178
15. “For the Pleasure of Life in Switzerland, I Had to Start Spitting Blood”. 199
16. Kabbalah, Dada, Communism: Meir Wiener’s Lehrjahre in Switzerland during World War I 214
17. Appendix I.
18. Herzl and the First Congress 233
19. Appendix II.
20. Fragments of an Unfinished Yiddish Novel 246
21. References 250
22. List of Contributors 267
23. List of Illustrations 269
24. Index 272