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Index ( Note: Italicized page numbers indicate tables or illustrations. Abushdid, Haim (Henry Camley), 74–75, 206–7 agents: double, 60; ICA, at border stations), 51–52; for information bureaus, 23, 27; of shipping companies, 56, 100, 101; as swindlers, 43–44; travel, 91n. 1 agricultural settlements in Argentinean Pampas, 14–15 Agudah Mizrahim-Tsiyonim, 150 agunot (deserted wives), 68–78, 129 Aleichem, Sholem (Shalom Rabinovitz), 146–47 Algemeyne yedies far di vos viln forn in fremde lender (General information for those wanting to migrate to foreign countries) (ICA booklet), 25 Alik (smuggler), 59 Alliance Israélite Universelle, Frankfurt conference (1904), 23–24 Altman, Sholem, 163 American industry, Jewish immigrants in, 11–12 Andizhan, Fergana province (Uzbekistan), 160–62 Andrashavka, Volhynia province, 71 Andrashovka (Andrushefsky), Volin (Wolosk) province, 137 animal trade, 173 Antin, Mary, 54 anti-Semitism fears, 22 Antwerp, border-crossing points for embarkation from, 49 Arabs in Jaffa, 183–84 Argentinean Pampas, Jewish agricultural settlements in, 14–15 Arinovitsh, Yoysef Ben Tsiyon, 102 Aronoff, Volf, 102 Assorodobraj-Kula, Nina, 4 Avni, Haim, 2 Baily, Samuel, 3 Baines, Dudley, 3, 25 bakeries, 183 Ballin, Albert, 55–57, 99–103, 99n. 16 banks, 164–65 Baron de Hirsch Fund, 22. See also Hirsch, Maurice de Batovski (Russian emigrant at Illowo), 102 “Before the Promised City” (Diner), 8–9 Berdichev, Kiev province, 41, 137n. 68 Bergman, M., 14–15 Bintel Brief, A (Metzker), 4–5 Bistritsky, Salam, 102 Black Hundreds, 144 black-market goods, 150–51 blacksmithing, 168–69, 179–80 Bloch, S., 27 Blum, Ayzik (Isaac), 130–31 Bobruisk, Minsk province, 191 Bogosklavske, Hasi (Khasya), 120–22  index Bogosklavske, Nekhome, 121 Bogosklavske, Shmuel-Meyer, 121 Bogoslavske, Borekh, 121 Bogoslavske, Yate-Mirl, 121 Bogoslavske, Yoysef, 120–21 border crossings, 44, 46, 58–60, 162; and ports of exit, 48–49 border patrol, 59 border stations, 49–50, 49 (map), 51–57, 99–103 brandy business, 192 brass and copper manufacturing, 178–79 Bremen, Germany: border-crossing points for embarkation from, 49; Galveston plan and, 23, 93n. 6; treatment of migrants at, 61–62, 92, 97, 208–9 Brest Litowsk, Grodno province, 41, 113n. 32 Bril, A., 136 Bril, Ja., 125–26 Brussels Conference, 145–47 building and furniture industry, 11–12 Bukshteyn, A., 101 Burgin, Moyshe, 35–36, 111–12 Burlington, Iowa, 96, 99 Byten, Grodno province, 173 Cahan, Abraham, 5 Camley, Henry (Haim Abushdid), 74–75, 206–7 carpentry work, 174–75 Castle Garden, 100–101, 135n. 63 Central Office of Migration Affairs, Berlin, 23–24 Chabno, Kiev province, 152–56 Chaimovitz, Moshe Aharon, 68 Cherkassy, Kiev province, 115 Chernigov province, 38 chicory, 196 cholera epidemic (1892), 49–50, 99–100n. 17 Chorzschele, Plotzk province, 188n. 150 Clara, Argentina, 14 Cohen, Morris, 76–77 communication network, 9 competition, 40–41, 158–59 corset-makers, 168–69 cost of emigration from Pale of Settlement to United States, 64, 64–65 Cowen, Joseph, 125–27, 143n. 75 craftsmen, 11–12, 40–41, 158–59 crime, 22, 46, 58, 100–103, 113, 162–63 dairy farming, 151 Darginski, Yitzchak, 133–36 Defro, Poalei, 148–50 Derekh la-avor golim (Lilienblum), 154 desertions by husbands, 68–76, 129–30. See also agunot (deserted wives) Diner, Hasia, 8–9 Distant Magnet, The (Taylor), 2 divorce, 70, 74–75, 177, 206–7 Dniester River, 60 documents of integrity, 45 double agents, 60 Dreamer’s Journey, A (Cohen), 76–77 drownings, 60 drugstores (pharmacies), 112 Dubossary, Kherson province, 34, 111n. 30 Eastern Europe, emigration from, 7–8, 41–43 economic hardships, 37–38, 41–43, 66, 107–10, 159 education, 153–55, 161, 166, 172, 185, 196 Eisenbud, B. L., 29 Eisenstadt, M., 188 Elterman, A., 179–80 Emigrantn un agentn: Nit keyn oysgetrakhte mayses (Emigrants and agents: Not figments of the imagination) (ICA booklet), 26–27 emigrants: deliberations of, 32–43; medical examinations of, 50, 52, 61, 100n. 17, 209; occupations of, 11; profiles of, 13, 40; records of, 7–8; treatment of, 208–9; unqualified, limbo state of, 61; women, 10–11, 45 emigration, Jewish: from 1904–1914, 9–10; characteristics of, 10–13; cost of, 63–65, 64; difficulties and obstacles in, 13–14, 44, 52, 61; factors behind, 62–63; as formative historical event, 78–79; highest rates by district, 38; illegal, 57–63; local detail of, 2–4; motivations for, 2, 61; pre-World War I, 39–40; questions about, 163–64; sociogender aspects of, 65–66. See also specific localities Emigration from Europe, 1815–1930...

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