‘The Air of Amsterdam Makes One Wise’. Outlines of a Critical Jewish History of the City | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
2004
Volume 49, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 1781-7838
  • E-ISSN: 1783-1792

Abstract

Abstract

This article studies the rise of Jewish urban history and argues for a diasporic reading of Jewish urban cultures that addresses three lenses: location, bilocation, and dislocation. The eighteenth-century history of Amsterdam Ashkenazim serves as a prime case study for analysing diasporic bilocation and the formation and growth of a local Amsterdam Jewish identity. Spatial practices demonstrate how Jews and non-Jews mixed and testify to the entangled nature of late early modern Jewish urban cultures.

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