Dutch Jewry in a Cultural Maelstrom : : 1880-1940 / / ed. by Judith Frishman, J. de Jong, W. Koetsenruijter, Hetty Berg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: A.Krop, H.,; Bax, Marty,; Brenner, Michael,; Cohen, Julie-Marthe,; E.Zwiep, Irene,; Frishman, Judith,; G.Fuks-Mansfeld, Renate,; Hofmeester, Karin,; Kollatz, Thomas,; L.Tananbaum, Susan,; Leydesdorff, Selma,; Schoonheim, Marloes,; Sorkin, David,; Veldhuis, Janny,; Wertheim, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Berg, Hetty,; Frishman, Judith,; Koetsenruijter, W.,; de Jong, J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Not only the Jews but Dutch society at large was caught up in a cultural maelstrom between 1880 and 1940. In failing to form a separate pillar in a period when various population groups were doing just that, the Jews were certainly unlike contemporary Catholics or Protestants. In fact, the Jews were not trying to gain entrance in a pre-existing culture but were involved with non-Jews in constructing a new culture. The complexity of Dutch Jewish history once again becomes evident if not new.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The New “Mosaik” Jews and European Culture, 1750-1940 -- The Politics of Jewish Historiography -- “The First Shall Be the Last” The Rise and Development of Modern Jewish Historiography in the Netherlands until 1940 -- Epigones and Identity Jewish Scholarship in the Netherlands, 1850-1940 -- Judaism on Display The Origins of Amsterdam’s Jewish Historical Museum -- De Vrijdagavond as a Mirror of Dutch Jewry in the Interbellum, 1924-1932 -- “Holland is a country which provokes serious reflection…” Images of Dutch Jewry in the German Jewish Press -- Spinozism and Dutch Jewry between 1880 and 1940 -- Spinoza’s Popularity in Perspective A Dutch-German Comparison -- Mozes Salomon Polak. Jewish “Lerner” and Propagator of Freemasonry, Spiritualism, and Theosophy -- Jewish Women, Philanthropy, and Modernization. The Changing Roles of Jewish Women in Modern Europe, 1850-1939 -- Roosje Vos, Sani Prijes, Alida de Jong, and the others. Jewish Women Workers and the Labor Movement as a Vehicle on the Road to Modernity -- Stemming the Current. Dutch Jewish Women and the First Feminist Movement -- Dutch Jewish Women. Integration and Modernity -- Index of names of persons -- Index of subjects