This study explores the shifting boundaries and identities of historic and contemporary Jewish communities. The contributors assert that, geographically speaking, Jewish people rarely lived in ghettos and have never been confined within the borders of one nation or country. Whereas their places of residence may have remained the same for centuries, the countries and regimes that ruled over them were rarely as constant, and power struggles often led to the creation of new and divisive national borders. Taking a postmodern historical approach, the contributors seek to reexamine Jewish history and Jewish studies through the lens of borders and boundaries.…mehr
This study explores the shifting boundaries and identities of historic and contemporary Jewish communities. The contributors assert that, geographically speaking, Jewish people rarely lived in ghettos and have never been confined within the borders of one nation or country. Whereas their places of residence may have remained the same for centuries, the countries and regimes that ruled over them were rarely as constant, and power struggles often led to the creation of new and divisive national borders. Taking a postmodern historical approach, the contributors seek to reexamine Jewish history and Jewish studies through the lens of borders and boundaries.
David J. Wertheim (PhD Universiteit Utrecht 2005) is director of the Menasseh ben Israel Institute for Jewish Social and Cultural Studies in Amsterdam. He authored Salvation through Spinzoza, A Study of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Leiden: Brill 2011)
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Introduction Part I Boundary Work The Ghetto of Florence and the Spatial Organization of an Early Modern Catholic State Explaining the Formation of Ghettos under Nazi Rule and its Bearings on Amsterdam Segregating "the Jews" or Containing the Perilous "Ostjuden"? Markers of a Minority Group Jews in Antwerp in the Twentieth Century Part II Cultural Trespassers Jewish Parliamentary Representatives in the Netherlands 1848-1914 Crossing Borders Encountering Boundaries? Catinka Heinefetter A Jewish Prima Donna in Nineteenth-Century France The Political Significance of Anne Frank On Crossing Boundaries and Defining Them Part III Crossing Borders The Twentieth-Century Portuguese Jews from Salonika "Oriental Jews of Portuguese Origin" Dutch Jews and German Immigrants Backgrounds of an Uneasy Partnership in Progressive Judaism Burnishing the Rough The Relocation of the Diamond Industry to Mandate Palestine Part IV Jews in Limbo Some Reflections on Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Poznania and Jewish Relations with Poles and Germans Belgian Independence Orangism and Jewish Identity The Jewish Communities in Belgium during the Belgian Revolution (1830-39) Citizenship Regionalization and Identity The Case of Alsatian Jewry 1871-1914 Moroccan Jewry and Decolonization A Modern History of Collective Social Boundaries Contributors 202 Index of Names and Places.
Introduction Part I Boundary Work The Ghetto of Florence and the Spatial Organization of an Early Modern Catholic State Explaining the Formation of Ghettos under Nazi Rule and its Bearings on Amsterdam Segregating "the Jews" or Containing the Perilous "Ostjuden"? Markers of a Minority Group Jews in Antwerp in the Twentieth Century Part II Cultural Trespassers Jewish Parliamentary Representatives in the Netherlands 1848-1914 Crossing Borders Encountering Boundaries? Catinka Heinefetter A Jewish Prima Donna in Nineteenth-Century France The Political Significance of Anne Frank On Crossing Boundaries and Defining Them Part III Crossing Borders The Twentieth-Century Portuguese Jews from Salonika "Oriental Jews of Portuguese Origin" Dutch Jews and German Immigrants Backgrounds of an Uneasy Partnership in Progressive Judaism Burnishing the Rough The Relocation of the Diamond Industry to Mandate Palestine Part IV Jews in Limbo Some Reflections on Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Poznania and Jewish Relations with Poles and Germans Belgian Independence Orangism and Jewish Identity The Jewish Communities in Belgium during the Belgian Revolution (1830-39) Citizenship Regionalization and Identity The Case of Alsatian Jewry 1871-1914 Moroccan Jewry and Decolonization A Modern History of Collective Social Boundaries Contributors 202 Index of Names and Places.
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