Diaspora Identities

Historical work on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries suggests that as nation-states were solidifying throughout Western Europe, exiled groups tended to develop rival national identities-an occurrence that had been fairly uncommon in the two preceding centuries. Diaspora Identities draws on eight case studies, ranging from the early modern period through the twentieth century, to explore the interconnectedness of exile, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism as concepts, ideals, attitudes, and strategies among diasporic groups. Die hier versammelten Studien eröffnen neue Perspektiven auf Nationalismus und Kosmopolitismus. Sie machen deutlich, dass schon vor dem »nationalen « 19. Jahrhundert im Kontext von Diaspora, Exil und Migration Identitäten und Verhaltensweisen entstanden, die zugleich kosmopolitisch und nationalistisch waren.

Autorentext

Kirsten Heinsohn, Dr. phil., ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden (Hamburg). Susanne Lachenicht, Dr. phil., ist Lehrbeauftragte und Habilitandin am Historischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg.

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Table of Contents Diaspora Identities: Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Past and Present - An introduction Susanne Lachenicht/Kirsten Heinsohn 7 "Une Seconde Patrie": The Irish Colleges, Paris, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Liam Chambers16 Sephardi Jews - Cosmopolitans in the Atlantic World? Susanne Lachenicht31 From France to le Refuge: The Huguenots' Multiple Identities Bertrand van Ruymbeke52 "Apostles of the Nation and Pilgrims of Freedom": Religious Representations of Exile in Nineteenth-Century Europe Maurizio Isabella68 Nationalism and Anti-Cosmopolitanism in the Russian Radical Right and Soviet Ideology Frank Grüner93 Between Nationalism and Internationalism: Displaced Persons at the UNRRA University of Munich Anna Holian109 Diaspora as Possibility and Task ? the Plea of a German-Jewish Woman Kirsten Heinsohn130 "The Song of Everyone without a Homeland": A Palestinian Writer in "Cosmopolitan" Beirut Kate Daniels148 Contributors162