Anti-Jewish violence and Migration: Questions, Mechanisms, and Historical Concepts

The pogrom against the Jews in tsarist Russia was widely perceived to have triggered successive waves of emigration, primarily to the United States. Meanwhile, the circumstances that accompanied the waves of mass violence defined as crises of political and social character, both in 1881-2 and 1905, favored the decision of thousands of Jewish families to leave the old world. In my presentation I will focus on the basic questions that need to be asked in order to verify this thesis, I will undertake an analysis of the mechanisms linking emigration from Russia to the USA in connection with the pogroms, and the place of this issue in historiography created in different periods