Manchester University Press
Conclusion
Abstract
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. British Jewish history has been regarded as being of minor importance, and its provincial experiences even more so. Yet the histories revealed in this book show the richness of previously neglected Jewish communities from the medieval era onwards. They show that the ‘global is everywhere and already, in one way or another, implicated in the local’. Moreover, this study has confirmed Sander Gilman's proposition that when ‘the center/periphery model is suspended, the frontier becomes the space where the complex interaction of the definitions of self and Other are able to be constructed’.
Abstract
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. British Jewish history has been regarded as being of minor importance, and its provincial experiences even more so. Yet the histories revealed in this book show the richness of previously neglected Jewish communities from the medieval era onwards. They show that the ‘global is everywhere and already, in one way or another, implicated in the local’. Moreover, this study has confirmed Sander Gilman's proposition that when ‘the center/periphery model is suspended, the frontier becomes the space where the complex interaction of the definitions of self and Other are able to be constructed’.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- 1 Placing the ‘local’ 1
- 2 Wessex tales/Yiddisher spiels 26
- 3 Winchester 53
- 4 Point of contestation 121
- 5 Jewish emancipation and after 150
- 6 Settlement and migration from the 1850s to 1914 178
- 7 Historicising the invisible 209
- 8 Memory at the margins, matter out of place 238
- Conclusion 258
- Index 267
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- 1 Placing the ‘local’ 1
- 2 Wessex tales/Yiddisher spiels 26
- 3 Winchester 53
- 4 Point of contestation 121
- 5 Jewish emancipation and after 150
- 6 Settlement and migration from the 1850s to 1914 178
- 7 Historicising the invisible 209
- 8 Memory at the margins, matter out of place 238
- Conclusion 258
- Index 267
