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The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881-1905 - Space, Mobility and Territoriality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881-1905 - Space, Mobility and Territoriality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book explores how fin de siecle Britain and Britons displaced
spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay
and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern 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.
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