Travel Agents on Trial
Policing Mobility in East Central Europe, 1889-1989
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7950659 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tara Zahra (University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 223 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 161-193 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gtu002 |
| OpenAlex | W2322394826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
In the winter of 1889, a sensational trial in the small Galician town of Wadowice captivated the Austrian press and public. The defendants in the case were Jewish travel agents from the nearby town of Oświȩcim — known to the world today as Auschwitz. Oświȩcim, located at the juncture of Prussian, Russian and Austrian railway lines, had recently developed a booming emigration business. Since 1880, hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans had trekked towards the German ports of Hamburg and Bremen en route to North America. The sixty-five defendants in the case were accused of seducing emigrants into abandoning their homeland with false promises of American riches, whereas, in reality, prosecutors argued, Eastern European peasants were delivered to hard labour in American factories, mines and brothels. The defendants stood trial for a host of unsavoury crimes: fraud, smuggling, bribery, assault and generally swindling emigrants out of their last heller as they set out for America.
Archaeology · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Emigration · German · Homeland · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Central European national history · European history and politics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |