The Limits of Intervention: Coercive Diplomacy and the Jewish Question in the Nineteenth Century

Green, Abigail

doi:10.1080/07075332.2013.836118

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“…However, that such a mutation was a preferred option only in certain contexts is shown by a comparison of the interventions related to the 'question of Jewish minority rights' in Romania (as addressed at the Congress of Belin in 1878) and Morocco (as addressed at the Conference of Madrid in 1880). 50 The Jewish advocacy efforts diverged widely, despite the fact that the Jewish community in Morocco was much longer-standing, dating back to the Spanish expulsion of the fifteenth century and earlier still, compared to Romania, where the majority of the Jews were first or second generation Ashkenazi migrants to the principality of Moldova. 51 As such, while in Romania they aimed at coercing the government to accept Jews as 'natives with full citizenship rights', in Morocco they sought 'to preserve Jews from the disadvantages of local citizenship by maintaining the pre-modern system of consular protection.'…”

Section: Strangers Subjects and Citizens -Recognising Difference In T...mentioning

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Historicising the Normative Boundaries of Diversity: The Minority Treaties of 1919 in a Longue Durée Perspective

Cârstocea

2020

Studies on National Movements

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The article accounts for the specific form a certain legal and, indeed, normative understanding of diversity informed the so-called Minority Treaties of 1919 by historicising the evolution of certain interlocking discourses over the remit of ‘rights’, as well as the identity of their holders. It seeks to account for why certain groups (national minorities) rather than others were singled out for protection and why the rights they were given took the form they did (cultural and linguistic) by positioning them in the context of broader debates within which they were embedded. I thus argue against reading the Minority Treaties from a ‘presentist’ perspective that not only retrojects a certain teleological narrative that tends to read them along the familiar lines of ‘progress’, but bears the danger of naturalising certain categories – such as ‘the nation’, ‘the nation-state’, or ‘nationalism’ – in light of their subsequent prominence, which consequently acquires a certain air of inevitability. To do so, the article first discusses normative conceptions of ‘diversity’ in a longue durée perspective, arguing for the emergence and contestation of hybrid and combined models of managing ‘difference’ during the long 19th century, prompted by the opposing tractions of efforts at homogenisation and hierarchisation. Second, it places the Minority Treaties in their immediate 1919 context, arguing that the form they took was significantly influenced also by contingent and extraneous contemporary factors, such as the expansion of the franchise after World War I or the sustained attempts to contain socialist revolutionary activity. The paper illustrates these developments by making specific reference to the situation of the Jewish minorities in Central and Eastern Europe as a case study.

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Section: Strangers Subjects and Citizens -Recognising Difference In T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Historicising the Normative Boundaries of Diversity: The Minority Treaties of 1919 in a Longue Durée Perspective

Cârstocea

2020

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“…In the 1860s and 1870s, Jewish international organizations such as the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Anglo-Jewish Association were established, forming networks of activism that operated through diplomatic channels, public meetings, and the publication of reports and articles in the press. 15 Eastern European proponents of the Jewish Enlightenment (Maskilim) often used the new platforms to advocate social and political reforms in Jewish societies. 16 Starting in the 1840s, Jewish newspapers had grown in number and circulation, assuming an increasingly key role in Jewish societies and cultures.…”

Section: Nineteenth-century Politics and The Jewish Public Spherementioning

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Leon Pinsker'sAutoemancipation!and the Emergence of German as a Language of Jewish Nationalism

Volovici

2017

Cent Eur Hist

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This article examines the role of the German language in early Jewish nationalism. It focuses on the publication, reception, and afterlife of the pamphletAutoemancipation!, published in 1882 by Leon Pinsker, a Russian Jewish doctor. The first Jewish nationalist pamphlet to be written in German by a Russian Jew, its rhetoric and terminology tapped into various Jewish and European discourses of emancipation. Pinsker not only challenged the legal-political conception of emancipation as it had been commonly used in German-Jewish discourse, but also mobilized its social and revolutionary connotations, which had been associated with radical European political movements since 1848. Moreover,Autoemancipation!marked a shift in Jewish political culture with regard to the potential function of the German language. Since the late eighteenth century and through the nineteenth century, German had a controversial status in Central and Eastern European Jewish societies given its association with Jewish Enlightenment, religious reform, secularization, and assimilation. Pinsker was the first to use German as a transnational language aimed at promoting the Jewish national cause. In this respect,Autoemancipation!set in motion a process whereby German became the chief language of Jewish nationalist activism.

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Religious Internationalisms

Green¹

2016

Internationalisms

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The Limits of Intervention: Coercive Diplomacy and the Jewish Question in the Nineteenth Century

Cited by 26 publications

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Historicising the Normative Boundaries of Diversity: The Minority Treaties of 1919 in a Longue Durée Perspective

Historicising the Normative Boundaries of Diversity: The Minority Treaties of 1919 in a Longue Durée Perspective

Leon Pinsker'sAutoemancipation!and the Emergence of German as a Language of Jewish Nationalism

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