David Wertheim, Judith Frishman, Ido Haan, Joel Cahen

Borders and Boundaries in and around Dutch Jewish History (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The widespread and long-held preconception that all Jews lived in ghettos and were relentlessly subject to discrimination prior to the Enlightenment has only slowly eroded. Geographically speaking, Jews rarely lived in ghettos and have never been confined within the borders of one nation or country. Power struggles and wars often led to the creation of new national borders that divided communities once united. But if identity formation is subject to change and negotiation, it does not depend solely on shifting geographical borders. A variety of boundaries were and are still being constructed and maintained between ethnic and other collective identities. The contributors to this book, like other post-modernist historians, turn their gaze to a wide range of identities once taken for granted, identities located on the border lines between one country and the next, between Jews and non-Jews as well as on those between one group of Jews and another.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040801154
• Artikelnr.: 75565302

Autorenporträt

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)

Inhaltsangabe

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.