Abstract
From 1897 to 1914, a small group of Danish Zionists presented the Danish Jewish community with a variety of Zionist objectives. In contrast to existing research, I argue that this activism played an important role in the communal change that took place among the Danish Jews before the outbreak of WWI. I identify how the salience of East European immigrants in Copenhagen compelled the self-conceived “ethnically” Danish Jews to reconsider and alter their boundaries of groupness in a significantly different way that resonated with the framework of Jewish groupness invoked earlier by the Zionists.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Journal of Israeli History |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 157-179 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISSN | 1353-1042 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Early Zionism
- Ethnification
- Danish Jews
- Relief work