Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction - Judith Frishman and Ido de Haan -- Part I. Boundary Work -- The Ghetto of Florence and the Spatial Organization of an Early Modern Catholic State - Stefanie Siegmund -- Explaining the Formation of Ghettos under Nazi Rule and its Bearings on Amsterdam. Segregating "the Jews" or Containing the Perilous "Ostjuden"? - Dan Michman -- Markers of a Minority Group Jews in Antwerp in the Twentieth Century - Veerle Vanden Daelen -- Part II. Cultural Trespassers -- Jewish Parliamentary Representatives in the Netherlands, 1848-1914. Crossing Borders, Encountering Boundaries? - Karin Hofmeester -- Catinka Heinefetter. A Jewish Prima Donna in Nineteenth-Century France - Ronald Schechter -- The Political Significance of Anne Frank. On Crossing Boundaries and Defining Them - David J. Wertheim -- Part III. Crossing Borders -- The Twentieth-Century Portuguese Jews from Salonika. "Oriental Jews of Portuguese Origin" - Manuela Franco -- Dutch Jews and German Immigrants. Backgrounds of an Uneasy Partnership in Progressive Judaism - Chaya Brasz -- Burnishing the Rough. The Relocation of the Diamond Industry to Mandate Palestine - David de Vries -- Part IV. Jews in Limbo -- Some Reflections on Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Poznania and Jewish Relations with Poles and Germans - Krzysztof A. Makowski -- Belgian Independence, Orangism, and Jewish Identity. The Jewish Communities in Belgium during the Belgian Revolution (1830-39) - Bart Wallet -- Citizenship, Regionalization, and Identity. The Case of Alsatian Jewry, 1871-1914 - Paula E. Hyman -- Moroccan Jewry and Decolonization. A Modern History of Collective Social Boundaries - Yaron Tsur -- Contributors -- Index of Names and Places.

This study explores the shifting boundaries and identities of historic and contemporary Jewish communities. The contributors assert that, geographically speaking, Jewish people rarely lived in ghettos and have never been confined within the borders of one nation or country. Whereas their places of residence may have remained the same for centuries, the countries and regimes that ruled over them were rarely as constant, and power struggles often led to the creation of new and divisive national borders. Taking a postmodern historical approach, the contributors seek to reexamine Jewish history and Jewish studies through the lens of borders and boundaries.

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