Information, decision, and migration: Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe in the Early Twentieth Century

This article discusses the importance of the availability of information inmaking the decision to emigrate. It argues that this had a major impact on Jewish emigration: the availability of knowledge alleviated the fear involved in moving to a new land and enabled hundreds of thousands to carry out their decision. The ramified activity of the information bureaux laid a foundation of data that became more and more sophisticated as the volume of emigration increased.