"In this compact yet comprehensive study, Tobias Brinkmann provides a global and holistic survey of Jewish migration from the mid-nineteenth to the mid twentieth century. With provocative analysis and meticulous research, Brinkmann weaves together the motivations and experiences of Jewish migrants, state policies on migration, and Jewish philanthropic efforts on the migrants' behalf. An essential addition to modern Jewish historiography." -- Derek Penslar, Harvard University"Tobias Brinkmann challenges the trope of the 'wandering Jew,' while also revealing how Jewish writers contributed to its creation. Ultimately, he posits World War I as a watershed moment when states sought to stabilize an 'artificial and shifting divide between the flight from persecution and the quest for a better life.'" -- Donna R. Gabaccia, Professor Emerita of History, University of Toronto"Surprisingly few scholars have tackled the question of migration as a process: not simply a departure and an arrival, but a complex series of movements, arrangements, interventions, intermittent halts, and individual experiences in transit. However, in Between Borders, Tobias Brinkmann comprehensively mines and explains the process and the experience of mass migration, seen and documented both by individuals and at the macro level, as seen by official agencies or the retrospective research of scholars. Brinkmann corrects misapprehensions or inaccuracies and offers an important series of new and original insights and noteworthy innovations in the field of modern Jewish migration out of Eastern Europe." -- Eli Lederhendler, Professor emeritus, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem