Borders and Boundaries in and around Dutch Jewish History /

Borders and Boundaries in and around Dutch Jewish History / / Ido Haan, Judith Frishman, David Wertheim, Joel Cahen.

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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 r...

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VerfasserIn:
Wertheim, David,
Frishman, Judith,
Haan, Ido,
MitwirkendeR:
Brasz, Chaya,
Daelen, Veerle Vanden,
Franco, Manuela,
Frishman, Judith,
Hofmeester, Karin,
Hyman, Paula E.,
Makowski, Krzysztof A.,
Michman, Dan,
Schechter, Ronald,
Siegmund, Stefanie,
Tsur, Yaron,
Wallet, Bart,
Wertheim, David J.,
de Haan, Ido,
de Vries, David,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 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
  • Index of Names and Places

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