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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808399703321

Autore

Wertheim David

Titolo

Borders and boundaries in and around Dutch Jewish history / / Judith Frishman [and others], editors [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Uitgeverij Aksant, 2011

ISBN

1-283-25993-1

9786613259936

90-485-2149-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

909.04924

Soggetti

Jews

Jews - Identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Boundary work -- pt. 2. Cultural trespassers -- pt. 3. Crossing borders -- pt. 4. Jews in limbo.

Sommario/riassunto

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.