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Autore |
Kushner Tony (Antony Robin Jeremy) |
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Titolo |
Anglo-Jewry since 1066 : place, locality and memory / / Tony Kushner |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press |
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New York, : distributed exclusively in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-78170-251-9 |
1-84779-478-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews - Great Britain - History |
Jews - Identity |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Placing the 'local' -- Wessex tales/Yiddisher spiels -- Winchester : constructing the city of memories -- Point of contestation : Jews in Portsmouth during the long eighteenth century -- Jewish emancipation and after : locality, brotherhood and the nature of tolerance -- Settlement and migration from the 1850s to 1914 -- Historicising the invisible : transmigrancy, memory and local identities -- Memory at the margins, matter out of place : hidden narratives of Jewish settlement and movement in the inter-war years. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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*Anglo-Jewry since 1066: Place, locality and memory* is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval times to the present and is the first to explore the construction of identities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in relation to the concept of place. The introductory chapters provide a theoretical overview focusing on the nature of local studies then moves into a chronological frame, starting with medieval Winchester, moving to early modern Portsmouth and then chapters covering the evolution of Anglo-Jewry from emancipation to the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on the impa |
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