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This book examines the particular experience of ethnic, religious
and national minorities who participated in the First World War as
members of the main belligerent powers: Britain, France, Germany
and Russia. Individual chapters explore themes including contested
loyalties, internment, refugees, racial violence, genocide and
disputed memories from 1914 through into the interwar years to
explore how minorities made the transition from war to peace at the
end of the First World War. The first section discusses so-called
'friendly minorities', considering the way in which Jews, Muslims
and refugees lived through the war and its aftermath. Section two
looks at fears of 'enemy aliens', which prompted not only
widespread internment, but also violence and genocide. The third
section considers how the wartime experience of minorities played
out in interwar Europe, exploring debates over political
representation and remembrance. Bridging the gap between war and
peace, this is the ideal book for all those interested in both
First World War and minority histories.
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.
This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews,
Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies,
it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material
images within Judaism and in Jewish life are part of an on-going
strategy of image management - the urge to shape, direct, authorize
and contain Jewish literary and material images and encounters with
those images - a strategy both consciously and unconsciously
undertaken within multifarious arenas of Jewish life from early
modern German lands to late twentieth-century North London, late
Antique Byzantium to the curation of contemporary Holocaust
exhibitions.
This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews,
Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies,
it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material
images within Judaism and in Jewish life are part of an on-going
strategy of image management - the urge to shape, direct, authorise
and contain Jewish literary and material images and encounters with
those images - a strategy both consciously and unconsciously
undertaken within multifarious arenas of Jewish life from early
modern German lands to late twentieth-century North London, late
Antique Byzantium to the curation of contemporary Holocaust
exhibitions.
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.
This wide-ranging collection of essays from leading scholars
interrogates as well as celebrates the current position and purpose
of British Jewish studies in the modern age.
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