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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorHaan, I. de
dc.contributor.authorMasé, A.G.
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-28T18:03:55Z
dc.date.available2012-02-28
dc.date.available2012-02-28T18:03:55Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/10073
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes the student migration of Jews from Tsarist Russia to the universities of Bern and Zürich in German-speaking Switzerland between 1865 and 1914. The Russian-Jewish students are considered with regard to numbers, migration patterns, motives for migration and life in the student colonies of Bern and Zürich, and they are studied as a social group with shared perspectives. The population movement is considered a migration system; specific structural determinants lead to large-scale emigration of Jewish students from Russia, and information on liberal admission policies triggered their movement to Swiss universities in great numbers and for more than 50 years. In Bern and Zürich, the Russian-Jewish students – about half of them women – crowded the medical faculties and followed lectures in historical-linguistic subjects and natural sciences. They populated few streets around university and constituted veritable Yiddish-speaking ‘colonies’. These colonies featured an active social life and political struggles that would influence the development of important political movements of East European Jewry such as Bundism and Zionism.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.titleStudent Migration of Jews from Tsarist Russia to the Universities of Bern and Zürich, 1865-1914
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsStudent migration
dc.subject.keywordsMigration system
dc.subject.keywords19th century
dc.subject.keywords20th century
dc.subject.keywordsRussian Jews
dc.subject.keywordsEast European Jews
dc.subject.keywordsTsarist Russia
dc.subject.keywordsEducation
dc.subject.keywordsUniversity of Bern
dc.subject.keywordsUniversity of Zürich
dc.subject.keywordsSwitzerland
dc.subject.keywordsLiberal admission policies
dc.subject.keywordsBund
dc.subject.keywordsZionism
dc.subject.keywordsModern Jewish identity
dc.subject.courseuuHistory: Cities, States and Citizenship


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