Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2163117
L. Ekholm
ABSTRACT This article traces the role that Jewish families with an Eastern European background played in the garment industry in both Sweden and Finland. It examines two cases of family firms with a Jewish ownership. From this starting point, it discusses why and how the family firms were important in shaping the Scandinavian Jewish Diaspora. I show how family ties are needed for understanding the entrepreneurial history of the community. Secondly, I discuss why these themes have been relatively absent in Nordic garment histories, as well as the tensions between Nordic business history and Jewish migration history.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2156191
Angelina Palmén
ABSTRACT The article explores the relationship between commercial capitalism and the first European women’s movement through the lens of Jewish business activity in the fashion-related industries of Wilhelmine Berlin. The analysis centers on Kaufhaus N. Israel, a department store and clothier. Between 1899 and 1914, the firm issued a series of prolifically illustrated albums, several featuring explicit ‘feminist’ elements. Through its elaborate publications, the author argues, the commercial company crafted its image as a cultural institution, relying on associations of the department store as a ‘women’s paradise,’ while venturing into political visions of egalitarianism and ethnic diversity in image and text.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2156189
K. Hofmeester
ABSTRACT If ‘the marketplace’ may be regarded as a conceptual proxy for the economy of capitalist societies, then the long history of Jews in the Amsterdam ‘diamond marketplace’ is an interesting case study for examining the Jewish experience. Over time, their importance shifted from the marketplace to the workplace and the labour organisation. While analysing how and why these changes occurred, this article will highlight how these changes affected interaction, exchange and cooperation between Jews and non-Jews and influenced the position, prestige and identities of all Jewish men and women that circulated on the ‘diamond marketplace.’
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1080/1462169x.2022.2156190
Trisha Oakley Kessler
ABSTRACT By exploring a collection of business correspondence between Jewish industrialists and their global networks following the expropriation of a large hat factory in Czechoslovakia in 1938, this article sheds light on the complicated and unpredictable nature of human responses to an unfolding moment when Jewish business colleagues faced ruinous economic persecution. Within these letters, these industrialists compose identities that reflect their business selves shaped by their experience of becoming refugees. They also draw out the mechanisms of decision-making in a crisis situation and highlight the concepts of strategy and agency that were crucial to navigating a new social and economic reality.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2156192
G. Reuveni
ABSTRACT This article seeks to offer a bird’s-eye overview of the ways in which the marketplace was imagined and experienced by Jews from the pre-emancipation to the post-Holocaust periods. It highlights dramatic transformations of the marketplace from a progressive site of promise, to a place of exclusion and persecution, into a site of healing and rehabilitation after the Holocaust. Studying these changes in the context of the Jewish expirence provides fascinating insights into the ways by which Jews generated and reinforced notions of belonging, exemplifying the significance the marketplace as a site re-defining the relations between Jews and other moderns.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2135859
Joseph Finlay
ABSTRACT In early 1978 a conflict emerged between the Orthodox Jewish newspaper Jewish Tribune and the Black British West Indian World. After Tribune published a seemingly offensive Yiddish language editorial cautioning against Jewish public solidarity with West Indians, it was leaked to West Indian World who splashed it on their front page. This article will give a full account of the largely forgotten affair, focusing on the responses to it in the Black and Jewish press and examining what it illustrates about Jewish responses to issues of race relations in late 1970s Britain.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2136871
F. Weinmann
ABSTRACT This article seeks to examine different stages, symbolic and material, of using the sea in Zionist thought and practice of statehood. What happens after a metaphorical space – which was used to imagine ways of establishing statehood – turns into reality? During this process, the city of Tel Aviv becomes the center of discussing the connection to the sea, for the city itself and for the Yishuv as a whole. Different expressions of an extending Jewish maritime development are affected through the simultaneity of interacting with the sea while negotiating its role for the Yishuv’s society during the 1930s.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1462169x.2022.2133483
Gur Alroey
ABSTRACT The novelty of this article is in the attempt to examine the pogroms from the point of view of the Jewish defenders and not of the victims or of the Ukrainian and Bolshevik establishment. Self-defense during the civil war in Ukraine played a historic role in the life of the Jewish towns. It stood guard and prevented killing and robbery. Helped in the restoration of economic and cultural life after the destruction of the community and its institutions. The focus on self-defense allows us to examine lesser-known and perhaps dark aspects of the Jewish self-defense in Ukraine.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2134297
M. Naor
ABSTRACT The article discusses the reports and accounts of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and Zionist emissaries regarding life Jewish Quarter of Mosul (Mahallat al-Yahud) during the first half of the twentieth century. As a dynamic and open Jewish space, the quarter expressed the development of the Jewish community in the ‘city of two springs’, as Mosul was known among its inhabitants. The article discusses the ideological perceptions expressed in the accounts of the emissaries on life in the Jewish Quarter. The emissaries concentrated on aspects relating to the process of modernization, while describing the Jewish Quarter as a Jewish ghetto.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2137661
Anoushka Alexander-Rose
ABSTRACT Vladimir Nabokov modelled his moral and political values on those of his father, V. D. Nabokov, especially revering his defence of Russian Jewry. This paper attempts to clarify broad-brushstrokes accounts of V. D. Nabokov, demonstrating how his ambivalent approach to the ‘Jewish Question’ evolved as a result of his Russian liberalism. Using contemporary accounts and revisiting primary sources, this challenges the hagiographic legacy built by his son and critics. In turn, this allows for a more refined understanding of Vladimir Nabokov’s literary engagement with the ‘Jewish theme’, his sacred relationship with his father, and the limitations of inherited liberalism.
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