Language:
German
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,1 (2007) 97-121
Keywords:
Jews, East European
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Europe, Eastern Emigration and immigration
;
Germany Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Until the First World War, Germany was mainly a transit land for East European Jews on their way to America: by 1914, only ca. 90,000 had settled in Germany. The war, however, brought a stream of new immigrants: refugees from the war zones and laborers attracted by or conscripted for work in German war industry. Of these, Jews formed a relatively small but very visible part. Already during the war, and all the more after it, the presence of these Jewish immigrants aroused antisemitism; while all the Jews in Germany were blamed for the German defeat and the economic crisis, this blame hit the East European immigrants the hardest. Describes measures - detention camps, strict controls, raids on homes - taken by the Prussian as well as the federal Ministries of the Interior to turn back would-be Jewish immigrants and induce those already there to move on to countries considered more able economically to absorb them, and the efforts of Jewish international aid associations to solve the problem.
DOI:
10.1515/ASCH.2009.97
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