Borders and Boundaries in and around Dutch Jewish History - 2 Table of Contents - 6 Introduction - 8 Part I Boundary Work - 20 The Ghetto of Florence and the Spatial Organization of an Early Modern Catholic State - 22 Explaining the Formation of Ghettos under Nazi Rule and its Bearings on Amsterdam Segregating “the Jews” or Containing the Perilous “Ostjuden”? - 36 Markers of a Minority Group Jews in Antwerp in the Twentieth Century - 46 Part II Cultural Trespassers - 64 Jewish Parliamentary Representatives in the Netherlands, 1848-1914 Crossing Borders, Encountering Boundaries? - 66 Catinka Heinefetter A Jewish Prima Donna in Nineteenth-Century France - 82 The Political Significance of Anne Frank On Crossing Boundaries and Defining Them - 96 Part III Crossing Borders - 110 The Twentieth-Century Portuguese Jews from Salonika“Oriental Jews of Portuguese Origin” - 112 Dutch Jews and German Immigrants Backgrounds of an Uneasy Partnership in Progressive Judaism - 126 Burnishing the Rough The Relocation of the Diamond Industry to Mandate Palestine - 144 Part IV Jews in Limbo - 156 Some Reflections on Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Poznania and Jewish Relations with Poles and Germans - 158 Belgian Independence, Orangism, and Jewish Identity The Jewish Communities in Belgium during the Belgian Revolution (1830-39) - 168 Citizenship, Regionalization, and Identity The Case of Alsatian Jewry, 1871-1914 - 184 Moroccan Jewry and Decolonization A Modern History of Collective Social Boundaries - 194 Contributors - 202 Index of Names and Places - 205
David J. Wertheim (PhD Universiteit Utrecht 2005) is director of the Menasseh ben Israel Institute for Jewish Social and Cultural Studies in Amsterdam. He authored Salvation through Spinzoza, A Study of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Leiden: Brill 2011)
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