Belgian Independence, Orangism, and Jewish Identity. The Jewish Communities in Belgium during the Belgian Revolution (1830-39)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Part I: Boundary Work
5. The Ghetto of Florence and the Spatial Organization of an Early Modern Catholic State 21
6. Explaining the Formation of Ghettos under Nazi Rule and its Bearings on Amsterdam. Segregating “the Jews” or Containing the Perilous “Ostjuden”? 35
7. Markers of a Minority Group. Jews in Antwerp in the Twentieth Century 45
8. Part II: Cultural Trespassers
9. Jewish Parliamentary Representatives in the Netherlands, 1848-1914. Crossing Borders, Encountering Boundaries? 65
10. Catinka Heinefetter. A Jewish Prima Donna in Nineteenth-Century France 81
11. The Political Significance of Anne Frank. On Crossing Boundaries and Defining Them 95
12. Part III: Crossing Borders
13. The Twentieth-Century Portuguese Jews from Salonika. “Oriental Jews of Portuguese Origin” 111
14. Dutch Jews and German Immigrants. Backgrounds of an Uneasy Partnership in Progressive Judaism 125
15. Burnishing the Rough. The Relocation of the Diamond Industry to Mandate Palestine 143
16. Part IV: Jews in Limbo
17. Some Reflections on Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Poznania and Jewish Relations with Poles and Germans 157
18. Belgian Independence, Orangism, and Jewish Identity. The Jewish Communities in Belgium during the Belgian Revolution (1830-39) 167
19. Citizenship, Regionalization, and Identity. The Case of Alsatian Jewry, 1871-1914 183
20. Moroccan Jewry and Decolonization. A Modern History of Collective Social Boundaries 193
21. Contributors 201
22. Index of Names and Places 204