Overview
- Explores the debates about citizenship, belonging and the state of the nation in Britain in response to an increase in immigration in the nineteenth century
- Offers a detailed examination of the territorial anxieties that critically informed how migrants were viewed along with timeless insights
- Examines a richly diverse collection of social and political commentary, including fiction, political testimony, ethnography, travel writing, journalism and cartography
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“By putting the politics of space at the heart of the migrant experience in the fin-de-siècle, Hannah Ewence provides acompelling new interpretation of the multiple historical sites, settings and circumstances from which the ideological figures of “the Jew” was brought into public view. Her timely, thoughtful and wide-ranging book promises to change our understanding of migration “crises” past and present. Highly recommended.” (David Glover, University of Southampton, UK)
“This is a beautifully written and constructed study of how East European Jews were imagined in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Deftly applying concepts such as space and mobility, this rich study uses sources ranging from parliamentary papers through to novels to explore responses that ranged from outright hatred to romantic portrayals of the 'ghetto' whether in Eastern Europe or the East End of London. Subtle and sophisticated, Hannah Ewence's book shows the importance of her subject matter for all those interested in migration, British cultural, imperial and political history, and Jewish studies.”(Tony Kushner, University of Southampton, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hannah Ewence is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Chester, UK, and an Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton, UK. She is the co-editor of three volumes in the fields of Jewish Studies and Minority History. Her most recent volume, Minorities and the First World War: From War to Peace, was published by Palgrave in 2017.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881–1905
Book Subtitle: Space, Mobility and Territoriality
Authors: Hannah Ewence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25976-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25975-4Published: 15 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25978-5Published: 15 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25976-1Published: 27 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 232
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Modern Europe, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Religion and Society