To Dwell in Safety: The Story of Jewish Migration Since 1800

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good sound copy with minor shelfwear only; the jacket has some shallow chipping along the top edge (including a little paper loss at the top of the spine), a tiny chip at the base of the spine, and some staining along the rear flap-fold]. (B&W plates) From the Preface: "Here is a comprehensive and scholarly but never dull survey of one of the most important social phenomena of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- the migration of millions of Jewish folk from central, eastern and southeastern Europe to the far corners of the world. Nowhere else, in any other single volume or group of volumes, can one find the facts so clearly portrayed or the causes and results of this modern exodus so searchingly analyzed. ... With the punctilious care of the trained scholar and the creative imagination of a profound student of social trends, the author makes out of his factual material a stirring and engrossing story." Born in Russia, the author (1882-1955) lived and worked in Berlin from 1921 to 1938, then relocated to Paris, and finally to the U.S. in 1941. From 1941 to 1949, he was a research associate for the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, and in 1948 he joined the faculty of Yeshiva University in New York. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." .