Information, Decision, and Migration: Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe in the Early Twentieth Century

Abstract

This article discusses the importance of the availability of information in making the decision to emigrate. It argues that this had a major impact on Jewish emigration: the availability of knowledge alleviated the fear involved in moving to a new land and enabled hundreds of thousands to carry out their decision. The ramified activity of the information bureaux laid a foundation of data that became more and more sophisticated as the volume of emigration increased.

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