(Hardback)

Since 1648, Eastern Jews have moved west in large numbers. Jews from Eastern Europe played a particularly strong role in the fields of social work, the fur trade, textiles, and entertainment. This book examines the migration of Jews from the east and describes the roles they have taken in the west.

(Hardback)

Most Jews who now live in Germany have lived elsewhere. Forty thousand of them are members of official Jewish communities in today's Germany. As a study in the formation of minority communities within European national matrices, Cohn's work has interest for sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists as well.