Tobias Brinkmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1086937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Brinkmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Brinkmann |
| SIGNATURE | BRINKMANN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands
Between Borders
The journeys of Jewish migrants and refugees from Eastern Europe around the globe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are the focus of this provocative and inspiring book. After 1860 expanding railroad networks and steamships connected Eastern Europe almost literally to the world. Before 1914 almost 2 million Jews from this vast region moved to the United States. Small groups went to other destinations around the globe. The First World …
Chicago
Around 1920 Chicago had emerged as one of the largest centers of Jewish life in the world. However, this is a little-known fact. Jews do not feature prominently in Chicago’s history and memory, even though they constituted close to 10% of the city’s population during the first half of the 20 th century. The article raises the question why and how Jews became insiders in a city of outsiders, with a focus on the economic and political spheres. A re…
Jews in new cities. Introduction
Transit Experiences
Between the 1870s and 1914, millions of Eastern Europeans moved to the United States. Little is known about the actual journeys of Polish, Jewish, and other migrants. A closer look at the experiences of transmigrants reveals a sophisticated system that was managed by Germany's two largest steamship lines, the Hamburg-America Line and the Bremen-based North German Lloyd. In the early 1880s, the United States shifted to a more thorough screening of…
Points of Passage
Between 1880 and 1914 several million Eastern Europeans migrated West. Much is known about the immigration experience of Jews, Poles, Greeks, and others, notably in the United States. Yet, little is known about the paths of mass migration across “green borders” via European railway stations and ports to destinations in other continents. Ellis Island, literally a point of passage into America, has a much higher symbolic significance than the often…
"Wir sind alle Fremdarbeiter!"
Migration und soziale Bewegung in ›dynamischen Zeiten‹ Die Geschichte der sozialen Bewegungen in der Bundesrepublik kann nicht ohne die Migrationsgeschichte gedacht werden. Denn die Kämpfe von Gewerkschaften, Arbeiterbewegung und ›Achtundsechzigern‹ formten sich zu großen Teilen erst durch die Präsenz und das Engagement von Migrantinnen und Migranten. In den 1960er und 1970er Jahren sahen sich in der Bundesrepublik sowohl die Gewerkschaften als a…
Strangers in the City
This article examines the impact of transit migration from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires on Berlin and Hamburg between 1880 and 1914. Both cities experienced massive growth during the last three decades of the nineteenth century, and both served as major points of passage for Eastern Europeans travelling to (and returning from) the United States. The rising migration from Eastern Europe through Central and Western European cities after…
Todd M. Endelman. Leaving the Jewish Fold
Conversion is a sensitive topic in modern Jewish history, but fortunately Todd M. Endelman has long been interested in the margins of Jewish identity. Since conversion is usually treated in passing or not at all, Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History provides a much-needed overview and fills a major gap in modern Jewish history, especially for the period after 1800. Admittedly, mass conversions of J…
Jewish immigrants and American capitalism, 1880–1920
Bounded by Mind and Soul
Bounded by Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel, 1880–2010." East European Jewish Affairs, 45(1), pp. 141–142
Points of Passage
Between 1880 and 1914 several million Eastern Europeans migrated West. Much is known about the immigration experience of Jews, Poles, Greeks, and others, notably in the United States. Yet, little is known about the paths of mass migration across “green borders” via European railway stations and ports to destinations in other continents. Ellis Island, literally a point of passage into America, has a much higher symbolic significance than the often…
We are Brothers! Let us Separate!” Jews and Community Building in American Cities during the 19th Century
The article examines the evolution of organized Jewish communities in the United States during the second half of the 19th century. After discussing why the historiography tends to focus on New York, the beginnings of the organized Jewish community in Chicago serves as a case study to highlight the challenges Jewish immigrants faced as they tried to build communities. Landsmanshaft, class, religion, voluntary membership, and the enormous size and…
Pogroms, Peasants, Jews
Pogroms, Peasants, Jews: Britain and Eastern Europe's “Jewish question,” 1867–1925." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 12(2), pp. 353–354
Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear
Gur Alroey, Detroit, Wayne State Press, 2011, 228 pp, ISBN: 9780814335192, $29.95 (cloth) Between 1881 and the early 1920s more than 2 million Jews left their homes in the Russian and Austro-Hungar...
The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters
The rise of transnational and global history in recent years has made only a limited impact on modern Jewish history. Apart from a few exceptions the field remains committed to the nation state paradigm, even though Jews constitute one of the oldest diasporas with a long tradition of building and sustaining links across cultural and political boundaries. The question as to how emancipated Jews positioned themselves within and between rising natio…
From Immigrants to Supranational Transmigrants and Refugees
The article discusses the impact of World War I on Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe. In modern Jewish history the experience of immigration is almost synonymous with movement to and settlement in immigrant neighborhoods in the heart of big metropolitan cities, especially New York. After 1918, however, traditional immigration countries like the United States closed their gates for most Eastern and Southern Europeans, as well as migrants from As…
Taking the Global View
Why Paul Nathan Attacked Albert Ballin
Albert Ballin was one of Imperial Germany's most successful business leaders. He early recognized the impact and possibilities of the expansion and integration of global markets. Within little more than a decade after he had joined the management of the Hamburg-Amerikanische-Paketfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) in 1886, he turned an already significant enterprise into the world's largest steamship line. As a leading manager and later as HAPAG d…
Mit Ballin unterwegs«. Jüdische Migranten aus Osteuropa im Transit durch Deutschland vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg
The Healthy Jew
Mitchell B. Hart, The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine (2007), x + 264 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £20.00/$28.00). With The Healthy Jew intellectua
From Hinterberlin to Berlin
Introduction 1 Jews and Modernity
Travelling with Ballin”
The restrictive immigration policies enacted in 1921 and 1924 by the United States Congress had strong roots in the period before World War I. This is not a new thesis. But this article transcends the confines of American history and looks at the impact of increasingly restrictive American immigration policies in central Europe since the early 1880s. It describes in detail how German state authorities and private steamship lines constructed an in…
Migration und Politik in der Weimarer Republik
Although the short-lived Weimar Republic has been analysed in great detail, recent scholarship has concentrated on its demise and on the rise of National Socialism. The movement of people across borders appears at first glance as a rather unspectacular chapter in the history of Weimar, unlike its fascinating cultural legacy or its dramatic economic history. Nor do the Weimar years appear especially significant in the longer history of German migr…
From Immigrants to Supranational Transmigrants and Refugees
The article discusses the impact of World War I on Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe. In modern Jewish history the experience of immigration is almost synonymous with movement to and settlement in immigrant neighborhoods in the heart of big metropolitan cities, especially New York. After 1918, however, traditional immigration countries like the United States closed their gates for most Eastern and Southern Europeans, as well as migrants from As…
Why Paul Nathan Attacked Albert Ballin
Albert Ballin was one of Imperial Germany's most successful business leaders. He early recognized the impact and possibilities of the expansion and integration of global markets. Within little more than a decade after he had joined the management of the Hamburg-Amerikanische-Paketfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) in 1886, he turned an already significant enterprise into the world's largest steamship line. As a leading manager and later as HAPAG d…
Travelling with Ballin”
The restrictive immigration policies enacted in 1921 and 1924 by the United States Congress had strong roots in the period before World War I. This is not a new thesis. But this article transcends the confines of American history and looks at the impact of increasingly restrictive American immigration policies in central Europe since the early 1880s. It describes in detail how German state authorities and private steamship lines constructed an in…
Bounded by Mind and Soul
Bounded by Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel, 1880–2010." East European Jewish Affairs, 45(1), pp. 141–142
Immigration and Identity in Britain
(2002). Immigration and Identity in Britain. National Identities: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 179-188
German Migrations
Dieter Gosewinkel, Einbürgern und Ausschließen. Die Nationalisierung der Staatsangehörigkeit vom Deutschen Bund bis zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001)Daniel Levy, Yfaat Weiss, ed., Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002)Barbara Marshall, The New Germany and Migration in Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)Jan Mott…
The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000
Book Review| April 01 2005 The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000, Hasia R. Diner. Tobias Brinkmann Tobias Brinkmann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (3): 87–88. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501606 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tobias Brinkmann; The Jews of the Uni…
Jüdische Wege ins Bürgertum. Kulturelles Kapital und sozialer Aufstieg im 19. Jahrhundert
In his small essay collection with the programmatic title German Jews beyond Judaism (Cincinnati/Bloomington, 1985), the late George L. Mosse stressed the cultural dimension of Jewish emancipation in the German context. Jews became Germans by replacing traditional Judaism with the universal and inclusive Enlightenment ideal of Bildung , which developed almost into a new “religion” for bourgeois German Jews. When all German Jews were finally emanc…
Gebildete Doppelgänger. Bürgerliche Juden und Protestanten im 19. Jahrhundert
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From Hinterberlin to Berlin
Introduction 1 Jews and Modernity
Travelling with Ballin”
The restrictive immigration policies enacted in 1921 and 1924 by the United States Congress had strong roots in the period before World War I. This is not a new thesis. But this article transcends the confines of American history and looks at the impact of increasingly restrictive American immigration policies in central Europe since the early 1880s. It describes in detail how German state authorities and private steamship lines constructed an in…
Migration und Politik in der Weimarer Republik
Although the short-lived Weimar Republic has been analysed in great detail, recent scholarship has concentrated on its demise and on the rise of National Socialism. The movement of people across borders appears at first glance as a rather unspectacular chapter in the history of Weimar, unlike its fascinating cultural legacy or its dramatic economic history. Nor do the Weimar years appear especially significant in the longer history of German migr…
Mit Ballin unterwegs«. Jüdische Migranten aus Osteuropa im Transit durch Deutschland vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg
The Healthy Jew
Mitchell B. Hart, The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine (2007), x + 264 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, £20.00/$28.00). With The Healthy Jew intellectua
From Immigrants to Supranational Transmigrants and Refugees
The article discusses the impact of World War I on Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe. In modern Jewish history the experience of immigration is almost synonymous with movement to and settlement in immigrant neighborhoods in the heart of big metropolitan cities, especially New York. After 1918, however, traditional immigration countries like the United States closed their gates for most Eastern and Southern Europeans, as well as migrants from As…
Taking the Global View
Why Paul Nathan Attacked Albert Ballin
Albert Ballin was one of Imperial Germany's most successful business leaders. He early recognized the impact and possibilities of the expansion and integration of global markets. Within little more than a decade after he had joined the management of the Hamburg-Amerikanische-Paketfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) in 1886, he turned an already significant enterprise into the world's largest steamship line. As a leading manager and later as HAPAG d…
The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters
The rise of transnational and global history in recent years has made only a limited impact on modern Jewish history. Apart from a few exceptions the field remains committed to the nation state paradigm, even though Jews constitute one of the oldest diasporas with a long tradition of building and sustaining links across cultural and political boundaries. The question as to how emancipated Jews positioned themselves within and between rising natio…
Points of Passage
Between 1880 and 1914 several million Eastern Europeans migrated West. Much is known about the immigration experience of Jews, Poles, Greeks, and others, notably in the United States. Yet, little is known about the paths of mass migration across “green borders” via European railway stations and ports to destinations in other continents. Ellis Island, literally a point of passage into America, has a much higher symbolic significance than the often…
We are Brothers! Let us Separate!” Jews and Community Building in American Cities during the 19th Century
The article examines the evolution of organized Jewish communities in the United States during the second half of the 19th century. After discussing why the historiography tends to focus on New York, the beginnings of the organized Jewish community in Chicago serves as a case study to highlight the challenges Jewish immigrants faced as they tried to build communities. Landsmanshaft, class, religion, voluntary membership, and the enormous size and…
Pogroms, Peasants, Jews
Pogroms, Peasants, Jews: Britain and Eastern Europe's “Jewish question,” 1867–1925." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 12(2), pp. 353–354
Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear
Gur Alroey, Detroit, Wayne State Press, 2011, 228 pp, ISBN: 9780814335192, $29.95 (cloth) Between 1881 and the early 1920s more than 2 million Jews left their homes in the Russian and Austro-Hungar...
Jewish immigrants and American capitalism, 1880–1920
Bounded by Mind and Soul
Bounded by Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel, 1880–2010." East European Jewish Affairs, 45(1), pp. 141–142
Strangers in the City
This article examines the impact of transit migration from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires on Berlin and Hamburg between 1880 and 1914. Both cities experienced massive growth during the last three decades of the nineteenth century, and both served as major points of passage for Eastern Europeans travelling to (and returning from) the United States. The rising migration from Eastern Europe through Central and Western European cities after…
Todd M. Endelman. Leaving the Jewish Fold
Conversion is a sensitive topic in modern Jewish history, but fortunately Todd M. Endelman has long been interested in the margins of Jewish identity. Since conversion is usually treated in passing or not at all, Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History provides a much-needed overview and fills a major gap in modern Jewish history, especially for the period after 1800. Admittedly, mass conversions of J…
"Wir sind alle Fremdarbeiter!"
Migration und soziale Bewegung in ›dynamischen Zeiten‹ Die Geschichte der sozialen Bewegungen in der Bundesrepublik kann nicht ohne die Migrationsgeschichte gedacht werden. Denn die Kämpfe von Gewerkschaften, Arbeiterbewegung und ›Achtundsechzigern‹ formten sich zu großen Teilen erst durch die Präsenz und das Engagement von Migrantinnen und Migranten. In den 1960er und 1970er Jahren sahen sich in der Bundesrepublik sowohl die Gewerkschaften als a…
Points of Passage
Between 1880 and 1914 several million Eastern Europeans migrated West. Much is known about the immigration experience of Jews, Poles, Greeks, and others, notably in the United States. Yet, little is known about the paths of mass migration across “green borders” via European railway stations and ports to destinations in other continents. Ellis Island, literally a point of passage into America, has a much higher symbolic significance than the often…
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