2012 Reports

Russian Migration Across Borders, Across Time

In the nineteenth century, Imperial Russia was home to the largest Jewish community in the world. Over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, millions of Russian Jews left their places of birth and settled in new homes scattered throughout the globe, in the process transforming the politics and cultures of countries throughout the world, spanning from the U.S. to Palestine, as well as the demographic centers of world Jewry.