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21 results
| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus Eli Ravage | Marcus Eli Ravage (Revici) | 1884 | 1965 | American | Jewish immigrant writer who wrote many books and articles about immigration in America and Europe between the world wars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Eli_Ravage |
| Aliyah Bet | Aliyah Bet | null | null | null | code name given to illegal immigration by Jews, most of whom were refugees escaping from Nazi Germany, and later Holocaust survivors, to Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and 1948, in violation of the restrictions laid out in the British White Paper of 1939, which dramatically increased between 1939 and 1948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah_Bet |
| Tal Kopan | Tal Kopan | 1986 | n/a | American | political reporter for CNN, where she focused on immigration and cybersecurity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Kopan |
| Dov Charney | Dov Charney | 1969 | n/a | Canadian | entrepreneur, clothing manufacturer and advocate for immigration reform in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Charney |
| Lawrence Auster | Lawrence Auster | 1949 | 2013 | American | racialist, conservative essayist who wrote on immigration and multiculturalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Auster |
| Bronisław Kaper | Bronisław Kaper | 1902 | 1983 | Polish | film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Kaper |
| Philip Cowen | Philip Cowen | 1853 | 1943 | American | Jewish newspaper publisher and immigration official | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Cowen |
| Carol Weiss King | Carol Weiss King | 1895 | 1952 | null | well-known immigration lawyer, key founder of the International Juridical Association, and a founding member of the National Lawyers Guild in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Weiss_King |
| Michael Wildes | Michael Jay Wildes | 1964 | n/a | American | immigration lawyer and politician who serves as the 38th and current Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wildes |
| Marc Klionsky | Marc Klionsky | 1927 | 2017 | Russian | artist who worked in New York City from his immigration in 1974 until his passing in 2017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Klionsky |
| Mary Antin | Mary Antin | 1881 | 1949 | American | author and immigration rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Antin |
| Albert Montefiore Hyamson | Albert Montefiore Hyamson | 1875 | 1954 | British | civil servant and historian who served as chief immigration officer in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1921 to 1934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Montefiore_Hyamson |
| David Carliner | David Carliner | null | null | null | immigration, civil liberties, and civil rights lawyer in Washington, D.C. Among the earliest practitioners of American immigration and naturalization law, he was an early combatant of anti-miscegenation laws, challenged the segregation of public accommodations, and fought for the rights of sexual minorities to enter the country and have full employment rights in the federal government | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carliner |
| Yona Bogale | Yona Bogale | 1908 | 1987 | Ethiopian | Jewish educator and public figure, who served as the director of the Beta Israel education network in Ethiopia and worked vigorously for the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Bogale |
| Max J. Kohler | Max James Kohler | 1871 | 1934 | American | Jewish lawyer, immigration activist, and historian from New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_J._Kohler |
| Gary Berkovich | Gary Berkovich, AIA, NCARB | 1935 | n/a | American | architect, and the first Soviet architect of 1960s – 1980s immigration wave, who had opened his office (Gary A. Berkovich Associates, 1987) in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Berkovich |
| David Englander | David Englander | 1949 | 1999 | British | historian of labour and poverty, and an authority on the work of Charles Booth and Jewish immigration to Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Englander |
| Baruch Tegegne | Baruch Tegegne | 1944 | 2010 | null | prominent leader of Ethiopian Jews in Israel and advocate of their immigration in the 1980s and 1990s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Tegegne |
| Zev Birger | Zev Birger | 1926 | 2011 | null | founder of the Sons of Zion Organization that worked to preserve Hebrew culture and language during World War II. He was also active in Aliyah Bet (illegal immigration organization) that organized the immigration of Holocaust survivors to Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zev_Birger |
| Judith Shuval | Judith Shuval | 1926 | n/a | Israeli | professor emerita of sociology who taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in public health and immigration | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Shuval |
| Marty Rosenbluth | Marty Rosenbluth | null | null | null | immigration lawyer and civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Rosenbluth |