Eugene M. Kulischer
Eugene M. Kulischer (
Biography
Born in
In a way, Kulischer was himself an example of a displaced person. Following the
Work
In the
"The migratory movement is at once perpetual, partial, and universal. It never ceases, it affects every people, but at a given moment it sets in motion only a small number of each population; hence the illusion of immobility. In fact, there is never a moment of immobility for any people, because no migration remains isolated".[6]
With that paragraph, he created a bridge linking the migration of individuals and the demographic fact of great migrations. He and his brother, along with millions of others, tried to put Europe as far behind them as they could on the eve of World War II. All of them had their own reasons. Some left because of their ethnicity, others because of their religion. Some left because of their politics, others because they feared the upheaval that they knew to loom on the horizon.
For Kulischer and his brother, their reasons for moving were simple. They were
"Man's history," Kulischer remarked, "is the story of his wanderings".[8] From the standpoint of the sociology of knowledge, he added, "Most scholars are rooted in their environment. They differ in their ability to outgrow it".[9] Combining those two statements applied for him and many of his peers who lived as exiles abroad and grew as they moved, such as the Austrian social scientists in exile (1933–1945).[10]
As Jackson and Howe recently observed in evaluating the migrations' impact:
E. M. Kulischer once reminded his readers that in A.D. 900 Berlin had no Germans, Moscow had no Russians, Budapest had no Hungarians, Madrid was a Moorish settlement, and Constantinople had hardly any Turks. He added that the Normans had not yet settled in Great Britain and before the sixteenth century there were no Europeans living in North or South America, Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa.
Publications
He published several books like the following:
- 1932. Kriegs- und Wanderzüge. Weltgeschichte als Völkerbewegung. With Alexander Kulischer. Berlin/Leipzig 1932.
- 1943. The Displacement of Population in Europe. Montreal 1943.
- 1948. Europe on the Move: War and Population Changes, 1917–1947. New York 1948.
References
- ^ A. J. Jaffe (April 1962), "Notes on the Population Theory of Eurgene M. Kulischer". In: The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 2:187-206.
- ^ Eugene M. Kulischer (1948), Europe on the Move: War and Population Changes, 1917–1947. Columbia University Press
- ^ Obituary (April 1956), "Eugene M. Kulischer." Population Index, Vol. 22:100
- ^ Europe on the Move, 1948
- ^ Europe on the Move, p. 9
- ^ Europe on the Move, p. vi
- ^ Europe on the Move, p. 8
- ^ Jaffe, quoted on page 193
- ^ Müller, Reinhard and Christian Fleck (2000), "Österreichische Soziologinnen und Soziologen im Exil 1933 bis 1945" Archived 2006-05-20 at the Wayback Machine, University of Graz.
Further reading
- A. J. Jaffe (1962). “Notes on the Population Theory of Eugene M. Kulischer”. In: The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 40(2) (April 1962): 187–206.
- Richard Jackson and Neil Howe (2008). [1]. In: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century. Washington 2008, p. 15.