Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2023.2253020
R. Rein, D. Sheinin
ABSTRACT A common Jewish Argentine creation story begins in 1889, with 824 Russian Jews disembarking in Buenos Aires and ushering in three decades of massive Jewish migration to that city. In six key themes, this article expands the parameters of that story chronologically, spatially, culturally, and politically. It focuses on the Jewish gaucho (skilled horseman) as an iconic representation of the intersections of Jewish and non-Jewish Buenos Aires; the meanings of neighborhood; the tragedy of ‘white slavery’; cultural institutions; Sephardic porteños (Buenos Aires residents); and the Jewish anarchists and socialists.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2023.2236446
Nathalie Neumann
ABSTRACT Felix Ganz was a businessman from Mainz, Germany, and the owner of a substantial collection of art objects from the Middle East and East Asia. In 1934, his company was ‘aryanized’, in 1941 his home was seized, he and his wife were deported to Theresienstadt a year later and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. The project presented here is to reconstruct the scope and character of Felix Ganz’s art collection and to research the mechanisms of its dispersion between 1933 and 1945 as well as the location of the objects today. The project combines family history and provenance research.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2023.2231267
Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
ABSTRACT The article draws attention to an issue that has been well discussed in historiography – the abolition of Jewish self-government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Based on the re-interpretation of known sources and the introduction of new historical materials several questions are raised. Is everything so obvious in respect of the liquidation of the Va’ads? The conclusions reached during this research correct the currently, generally recognised date of the ‘abolition’ of the Polish and Lithuanian Va’ads and provide new examples of the functioning of the supra-communal organisation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the eighteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2023.2235923
C. Døving
ABSTRACT How is Jewish identity constructed in relation to Muslims, Norway’s largest minority group? This article is based on a selection of public expressions of Jewish identity in which parallels to Muslims are drawn. I argue that the way in which identity is expressed is linked to changes in the way in which antisemitism is discussed in the Norwegian public sphere. The phenomenon of antisemitism has become part of a more general discourse on the vulnerability of minorities, which allows for comparisons between antisemitism and hostility to Muslims. This discursive space has created new ways of expressing Jewish identity.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169x.2023.2236445
Sandra Lipner
ABSTRACT Felix Ganz (1869–1944) developed his family’s fabric and furniture store in Mainz into a public company with subsidiaries and branches across Europe and the Middle East. The business was restructured after the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression and was lost to the family as a result of Nazi anti-Jewish persecution. This article reconstructs the history of the Ludwig Ganz AG and the entrepreneurial biography of its owner Felix Ganz, a member of Germany’s business elite in the Wilhelmine and Weimar eras, a veteran of the First World War, and a victim of antisemitism during the Third Reich.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2023.2235855
James Nissen
ABSTRACT Klezmer has become an established genre in world music, but its performance is dominated by non-Jewish musicians. Against the backdrop of the ‘Jewface’ scandal in London’s West End, I explore the issue of Jewish representation in klezmer in the British world music industry, examining recurrent trends of cultural appropriation that result in the exclusion and exploitation of Jewish musicians and the exoticisation and erasure of Yiddish culture. I highlight how this systemic marginalisation illustrates a double standard in the industry, providing another example of how Jews are being left out of the progressive drive towards diversity in the performing arts.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/1462169x.2023.2217049
C. Knight
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2023.2217048
K. Cohen-Hattab
to the reader. Sobriquets, mononyms, or shared experiences for example, often remain know only to the letter writer and their addressee. The additional context provided in Life and Love, both familial and pertaining to the wider Prague/Czech/European situation, sets the work apart from translated letters remaining in the archive uncontextualised. Whilst Life and Love does not extrapolate out of the letters themselves to create a cohesive narrative as is the case with works by historians, such as Joachim Schlör, Esther Saraga, Shirli Gilbert and others, instead opting for translated and transcribed sources, it does so largely successfully through utilising the words of the author, Marie Bader (even crediting her as the author.) The volume clearly remarks in the initial ‘Editors’ note’ that it contains only selected letters, and that these have further been shortened to avoid repetitions and ‘details not essential for the main story’ (p.19). Furthermore, the editors note that such omissions have not been identified as not to break the flow of the letters as they appear in the volume. Whilst this reviewer fully understands the need for such edits and omissions to ensure the letters viability as a coherent narrative, such changes make the work perhaps less useful for the historian wishing to seriously quote from Ottevanger and Láníček’s edited collection, as one cannot be sure to what extent such passages have been altered. This minor critique aside, Marie Bader’s letters constitute an emotional retelling of one woman’s experience of Nazi occupation and oppression. The reader cannot help but be moved by her loving words for Ernst and her determination to tackle the reality of her existence in the city. Whilst previously dismissed as too partisan and lacking in use for historians, letters are seeing a surge in use in recent years. Letter collections, like those discovered by the Ottevangers in 2008, exist in attics and garages across the world, stored in suitcases and cardboard boxes long since forgotten about. Life and Love therefore represents not only a well researched and detailed account of the epistolary characteristics of one woman but the tip of the iceberg for private collections of correspondence emerging from the past.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2023.2202057
A. Mond Havardi
ABSTRACT Only two weeks separated between the publication of the Hebrew translation of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, the great First World War novel, written by a veteran soldier – and the publication of Avigdor Hameiri’s own war memoir, The Great Madness, the first best-seller of the Hebrew literature in Palestine. The publication of Hameiri’s magnum opus came at the end of 1929, the year in which the Jewish author, poet and former soldier closed the curtains on the Kumkum, the first ever Hebrew satirical theatre in Palestine.
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