?And I Remained Alone in a Vast Land?: Women in the Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe

Alroey, Gur

doi:10.2979/jss.2006.12.3.39

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“…A woman who was left behind permanently had few alternatives: she could save the fare to travel to Canada to find her husband; remain married, an agunah or anchored woman, and shoulder all of the responsibility for the children without any possibility of a change in status or fortune; or obtain a divorce through a rabbi. 110 A divorce allowed her to apply for a separate passport and to remarry. 111 The abandoned wife still required that her husband grant the get; without it she could not marry again.…”

Section: Family and Marriage Counsellingmentioning

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Mapping Work in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal: A Rabbi, a Neighbourhood, and a Community

Poutanen¹,

Gilliland²

2018

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Rabbi Simon Glazer’s 1909 daily journal provides a window onto his role as an orthodox rabbi of a largely Yiddish-speaking immigrant community, his interactions with Jewish newcomers, the range of tasks he performed to augment the inadequate stipends he received from a consortium of five city synagogues where he was chief rabbi, and the ways in which Jewish newcomers sought to become economically independent. Using a multidisciplinary methodology, including Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS), Glazer’s journal offers a new lens through which to view and map the social geography of this community. Our study contributes to a growing body of literature on immigrant settlement, which has shown that such clustering encouraged economic independence and social mobility. Characterized by a high degree of diversity in ethnicity and commerce, the St. Lawrence Boulevard corridor was an ideal location for Jewish newcomers to set down roots. We argue that the community served as a springboard for social mobility and that Simon Glazer played an important role at a critical moment in its early development. It was on its way to becoming one of Canada’s most significant Jewish communities. Over the eleven years that he worked in Montreal (1907–18), Glazer carved out a vital place for himself in the city’s Jewish immigrant community and honed skills that would serve him well when he returned to the United States.

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Section: Family and Marriage Counsellingmentioning

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Mapping Work in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal: A Rabbi, a Neighbourhood, and a Community

Poutanen¹,

Gilliland²

2018

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“…4 In addition, immigration to Palestine since the late nineteenth century was mainly that of families and not single people, including during the waves of emigration usually associated in the historiography with the Zionist pioneers (idealistic youngsters who came on their own from Eastern Europe during the tens and early twenties of the twentieth century). 5 The familial character of the Yishuv society was not confined to an emigration pattern or the multitude of families within it but seems to have been manifested in the wider and more inclusive sociological term of ''familism.'' In recent decades, sociological research on contemporary Israeli society has demonstrated the varied aspects of its familistic nature, particularly in comparison with Western societies in which the nuclear family has lost its centrality.…”

Section: The Historiography Of the Family In The Yishuv Periodmentioning

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The Family Is Worthy of Being Rebuilt: Perceptions of the Jewish Family in Mandate Palestine, 1918-1948

Razi

2010

Journal of Family History

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Although the Jewish community of Palestine was an extremely family-oriented society and the institute of the family played a major role in the establishment of the new Zionist nationhood, the historiography has henceforth paid little attention to its role, images, and functions. This article will examine the diverse and often contradictory perceptions and influences that have shaped the Zionist period. Traditional Jewish perceptions intertwined with modern, bourgeois, and revolutionary notions of the family, whether national or socialist. These contradictory perceptions were manifested in the contested professional and public discourse regarding the many dysfunctional urban families in Tel Aviv, who were treated by welfare authorities and mental health specialists during the 1930s and 1940s.

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“…Women from lithuania and Latvia who had passports generally left via the port of Libau in Latvia. 65 Those who were unable to obtain a passport left from Hamburg or Bremen. Before the First World war, it was possible to leave these cities without passports.…”

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When Rivke Left Home: Women's Journeys from Eastern Europe to South Africa

Belling¹

2009

Jewish Culture and History

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?And I Remained Alone in a Vast Land?: Women in the Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Mapping Work in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal: A Rabbi, a Neighbourhood, and a Community

Mapping Work in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal: A Rabbi, a Neighbourhood, and a Community

The Family Is Worthy of Being Rebuilt: Perceptions of the Jewish Family in Mandate Palestine, 1918-1948

When Rivke Left Home: Women's Journeys from Eastern Europe to South Africa

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