History Department Electives: Seminars : HIST W4603: Jewish Migration to the Americas: Eastern European Jews In the U.S. and Latin America, 1881-1939. Rebecca Kobrin.

Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, millions of Jews in Eastern Europe uprooted themselves from their places of birth and settled in new homes around the world. In this course, we shall analyze primary source material, literary accounts as well as secondary sources as we try to make sense of the different factors shaping East European Jewish immigrants' experiences in the Americas. 4 pts.