1st Edition
Borders and Boundaries in and around Dutch Jewish History
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
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)
