Linguistic Diversity within Antwerp’s Jewish Community

Throughout most of their history, the Jews have been a multilingual people. Like so many other Jewish diasporas, Antwerp’s Jewish community has been «marked by transnational conditions», shaped by different migration waves, essentially from Eastern Europe. Before and after the Holocaust, Antwerp’s...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cmc,
Egile nagusia: Dickschen, Barbara
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: Les Cahiers de la mémoire contemporaine 2019
Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:Throughout most of their history, the Jews have been a multilingual people. Like so many other Jewish diasporas, Antwerp’s Jewish community has been «marked by transnational conditions», shaped by different migration waves, essentially from Eastern Europe. Before and after the Holocaust, Antwerp’s Jewish community forms a hetero­geneous group, unified by a collective consciousness and strong sense of belonging.Because of this cultural plurality, the Jewish community of Antwerp is not a unili...