The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881-1905 Space, Mobility and Territoriality /

• Main Author: Ewence, Hannah (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Imperialism.; Religion and sociology.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Modern Europe.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Religion and Society.

This book explores how fin de siècle Britain and Britons displaced spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern and Central Europe migrating westwards. The myriad of representations of the 'alien Jew' that emerged were th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Placing the Alien Jew in the British Imagination
• 2. Jewish Eastern Europe: Between Territoriality and Dispossession
• 3. The Limits of Control: Journeys of the Alien Jew
• 4. Scaling the Jewish East End
• 5. Conclusion.