03706nam 22006255 450 991048317920332120241002130648.03-030-25976-510.1007/978-3-030-25976-1(CKB)4100000009375201(DE-He213)978-3-030-25976-1(MiAaPQ)EBC5906814(EXLCZ)99410000000937520120190927d2019 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881–1905 Space, Mobility and Territoriality /by Hannah Ewence1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (XV, 232 p. 6 illus., 2 illus. in color.)3-030-25975-7 1. Introduction: Placing the Alien Jew in the British Imagination -- 2. Jewish Eastern Europe: Between Territoriality and Dispossession -- 3. The Limits of Control: Journeys of the Alien Jew -- 4. Scaling the Jewish East End -- 5. Conclusion.This book explores how fin de siècle Britain and Britons displaced spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern and Central Europe migrating westwards. The myriad of representations of the ‘alien Jew’ that emerged were the product of, but also a catalyst for, a decisive moment in Britain’s legal history: the fight for the 1905 Aliens Act. Drawing upon a richly diverse collection of social and political commentary, including fiction, political testimony, ethnography, travel writing, journalism and cartography, this volume traces the shifting rhetoric around alien Jews as they journeyed from the Russian Pale of Settlement to London’s East End. By employing a unique and innovative reading of both the aliens debate and racialized discourse concerned with ‘the Jew’, Hannah Ewence demonstrates that ideas about ‘space’ and place’ critically informed how migrants were viewed; an argument which remains valid in today’s world. .JewsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryImperialismReligion and sociologyHistory of Britain and Irelandhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020History of Modern Europehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717080Russian, Soviet, and East European Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717090Imperialism and Colonialismhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/722000Religion and Societyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1A8020Great BritainHistoryRussiaHistoryEurope, EasternHistoryJewsHistoryImperialism.Religion and sociology.History of Britain and Ireland.History of Modern Europe.Russian, Soviet, and East European History.Imperialism and Colonialism.Religion and Society.941305.892404109034Ewence Hannahauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1080524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910483179203321The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881–19052593683UNINA