The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition - (Brill's Jewish Studies) by Sietske Van Der Veen (Hardcover)

About the Book

The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition offers the first systematic, large-scale analysis of the upward social mobility and integration of Jews in the Netherlands with a higher social status, offering new insights into the varied modern Jewish experience.

Book Synopsis

The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration, 1870-1940 offers the first systematic, large-scale analysis of the upward social mobility and integration of Jewish members of the Dutch economic, political, and cultural elites. Considering the lives of over seven hundred individuals, the first two chapters study the domains of work, education, place of residence, religious affiliation, marriage, and association membership. The latter three chapters are case studies focusing on gender, spatial experience, and empire. This book is a significant contribution to the research on European Jewish history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, offering new insights into the varied modern Jewish experience from a Dutch perspective.

About the Author

Sietske van der Veen is a researcher and lecturer in modern Jewish studies at the University of Amsterdam and review editor of the European Journal of Jewish Studies. She has published on Jewish elites, Jewish belonging, and spatial experiences of Jews.