A look at the historical relationship between Britons and Anglo-Jews through the lens of Tottenham Hotspur supporters' "Yid Army." The influx of Eastern European immigrants in the 1880s, the rise of the British Union of Fascists and the continuing evolution of British national identity speaks to a trend within Anglo-Jewish identity formation. Debates within the Jewish community of how best to live in British society, be it through assimilation or reassertion of Jewishness, have continued to the present day. By looking at the history of the Anglo-Jew in Britain one is able to see that the events surrounding the Y-word in soccer are based in a larger history of the Jewish struggle to form an Anglo-Jewish identity in the midst of an ever-evolving notion of Britishness.

abstract: Relevant literature was analyzed alongside interview data from participants concerning issues of anti-Semitism, Israel affiliation, and Jewish identity. Qualitative coding and theme identification were used to determine possible relationships among the variables, with special attention to the role anti-Semitism plays in influencing Israel affiliation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 9 young American Jews (18-24) currently enrolled as undergraduate students in universities. The results revealed that continuity of the Jewish people is a core value for many American Jews. Anti-Semitism is often under reported by young American Jews, but for some anti-Israel sentiments are conflated with anti-Semitism. It was also observed that knowledge of anti-Semitism plays an integral role in shaping Jewish identity. Finally, it was found that Israel affiliation polarizes the Jewish community, often resulting in the exclusion of left-leaning Jews from the mainstream Jewish community. These results were analyzed within racial, social, and political frameworks. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Justice Studies 2018

A presente investigação tem como objetivo estabelecer uma reflexão sobre as relações entre a história e a memória por meio da análise da minissérie Holocausto (1978), produção televisiva veiculada pela rede norte-americana NBC. O enredo de Holocausto está centrado na trágica narrativa sobre uma família judia-alemã no período que vai de 1935 a 1945. Modelo típico de judeus assimilados na Berlim dos primeiros anos do nazismo, a família Weiss testemunha as trágicas mudanças em sua realidade com a ascensão do nazismo e o estabelecimento do antissemitismo como política de estado. A minissérie é apontada como um marco na emergência do interesse sobre o Holocausto na consciência pública norte-americana, apresentando um discurso narrativo a respeito do extermínio dos judeus europeus que está diretamente vinculado à valorização desta mesma memória pela comunidade judaica. Pretende-se apontar que o aspecto comemorativo dessa produção audiovisual e o impacto verificado em sua exibição fora dos Estados Unidos, sobretudo na República Federal Alemã, evidenciam a complexidade da relação entre a história e os discursos de memória. / This investigations purpose is to establish a reflection about the relations between history and memory through the analysis of the miniseries Holocaust (1978), production broadcasted by the North American television channel NBC. The plot of Holocaust focuses on the tragic narrative of a Jewish-German family in the period from 1935 to 1945. A typical example of assimilated Jews, the Weiss family witnesses the tragic changes in their lives with the rise of Nazism and the establishment of anti-Semitism as a state policy. The miniseries is considered a landmark in the emergence of interest about the Holocaust in the public conscience of American people, presenting a narrative concerning the extermination of European Jews that is directly linked to the appreciation of this memory by the Jewish community. We intend to point that the commemorative aspect of this audio-visual production and the impact shown by its exhibition outside the United States, mainly in the Federal Republic of Germany, evidence the complexity of the relation between history and the memory discourse.

Holocaust monuments are often catalysts in the ‘nationalization’ of the Holocaust – the process by which Holocaust memory is shaped by its national milieu. Between 2009 and 2011, the Parliament of Canada debated a bill which set out the guidelines for the establishment of a National Holocaust Monument (NHM), which ultimately became a federal Act of Parliament in early 2011. I examine the discourse generated by this bill to understand how the memory of the Holocaust is being integrated into the Canadian identity, and argue that the debate surrounding the NHM has been instrumental in the ‘Canadianisation’ of the Holocaust. I summarise my findings by placing them into dialogue with other national memories of the Holocaust, and identify three distinct features of Holocaust memory in Canada: a centrifugal trajectory originating in the Jewish community, a particular-universal tension rooted in multiculturalism, and a multifaceted memory comprising several conflicting – though not competing – narratives. Monuments de l’Holocauste sont souvent des catalyseurs de la «nationalisation» de l'Holocauste – le processus par lequel mémoire de l'Holocauste est formé par son milieu national. Entre 2009 et 2011, le Parlement du Canada a débattre un projet de loi qui crée les lignes directrices pour la mise en place d'un Monument national de l'Holocauste (MNH), qui est finalement devenu une loi fédérale du Parlement au début de 2011. J'examine le discours généré par ce projet de loi pour comprendre comment la mémoire de l'Holocauste est intégrée dans l'identité canadienne, et soutien que le débat entourant le MNH a joué un rôle déterminant dans la «canadianisation» de l'Holocauste. Je résume mes conclusions en les plaçant dans le dialogue avec d'autres mémoires nationales de l'Holocauste, et d'identifier trois caractéristiques distinctes de mémoire de l'Holocauste au Canada: une trajectoire centrifuge d’origine dans la communauté juive, une tension particulière-universelle enracinée dans le multiculturalisme, et une mémoire à multiples facettes comprenant plusieurs récits contradictories – mais pas compétitifs.

The Holocaust and post-war anti-Semitism-propelled migration changed the face of Poland, a country that for centuries has been the heartland of the Jewish diaspora. Remnants of the Polish Jewry that did not emigrate, regardless of whether they considered themselves Poles, Poles of Jewish descent or Polish Jews, often felt fearful about speaking of their ancestry, let alone acting upon it. Jewish organizations and social life did not disappear, but religious congregations in particular gradually diminished in number and activity. Post-socialist Poland has become an arena of profound transformation of Jewish communal life, fostered by stakeholders with distinct agendas and resources: empowered and politically emancipated Jewish Religious Communities, now-marginalized secular organizations of the communist era, a nascent generation of Polish Jewish activists and volunteers, and transnational Jewish non-governmental organizations. My thesis explores Polish Jewish communal life and experiences of being and becoming Jewish. It is a study after the ‘revival’, but revealing its looming presence in unsolved predicaments over a Jewish future, global structural dependencies, and temporal dynamics of programs of socialization. I argue that the post-socialist reality not only witnessed the coming of a new Polish Jewish generation, but also the emergence of a new sociality, shaped in two decades of continuous friction between ontologies, agendas and hopes originating in different locations within, and on different scales of, the Polish Jewish contemporaneity. This new Polish Jewish reality invites us to rethink the impact of globalization on the Jewish diaspora in Eastern Europe, and also offers a new perspective on the role of global NGOs in the contemporary world.

This essay offers a thematic analysis focusing specifically on antisemitic motifs, in Jascha Golowanjuk’s novel Främmande fågel (1944). The Jewish identity of the protagonist is analyzed as a parallel development to his other identity processes, in which his artistry as a violinist is especially emphasized. This analysis is mainly achieved by using Jean-Paul Sartre’s theory of the anti-Semitic Jew, as well as Frantz Fanon’s writings about racism. By reason of the insufficient previous research on Jascha Golowanjuk, a brief introduction to the author and his Swedish authorship is provided, along with its reception during the 1930s and 40s. I argue that the protagonist’s development of a Jewish identity is essential to his artistry. Finally, this essay explores the contrast between the discussion of Jewish identity within Golowanjuk´s novels, and the complete disregard the literary establishment had for this very same discussion.

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The aim of this paper is to study how Swedish ­Jewish women and non-men relate to widespread notions of Jewish motherhood and the trope of ”the Jewish mother”, through their own  stories. The paper asks how they relate to notions of Jewish motherhood, how these notions  function in the construction of their identities as Jewish and how it relates to processes of  community and nationalism. The material that is analyzed is the narrative of fourteen Jewishidentified women/non-men gathered with a survey interview. It is analyzed through theories  of the relation between motherhood and nationalism, the constitutive terms of a diaspora and an intersectional approach to racialized processes of gender and gendered processes of the  constitution of race and ethnicity. The thesis concludes that through the informants’ stories  the cultural symbol of ”motherhood” is dependent upon certain symbols in its own, such as  food and religious practices, that relate to identity processes among the informants, and to  processes of community and nationalism tied to motherhood. Jewish mothers, potential  mothers and parents are effected by expectations of certain Jewish ways of performing  motherhood in their identification as Jewish and in their sense of belonging to the Jewish  community. They also relate these expectations to portrayals of Jewish mothers from popular culture as well as to the parenting and memories of their own mothers and ancestral women.

Mon mémoire propose un portrait ethnographique de la congrégation juive reconstructionniste Dorshei Emet à travers l’analyse combinée des rituels et des discours des membres. Les rituels proposés à la congrégation transmettent la philosophie reconstructionniste et un éthos que les membres s’approprient de différentes façons. Pour plusieurs membres qui ne croient pas en Dieu ou qui sont agnostiques, le rituel devient l’expression d’un lien à la tradition juive à travers la vie communautaire. De fait, le rôle de la communauté religieuse dans la vie quotidienne de ses membres ainsi que leur rôle en son sein seront analysés. L’intérêt est avant tout de saisir la valeur que les membres attribuent à leur participation aux rituels. Une attention particulière sera également portée au sens que le religieux a eu dans leurs trajectoires personnelles jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Ce mémoire participe au tableau de la diversité au sein du judaïsme québécois, mais aussi plus largement au portrait global de la diversité religieuse au Québec. / My thesis offers an ethnographic portrait of the Jewish Reconstructionist congregation Dorshei Emet through a combined analysis of rituals and members discourses. Dorshei Emet rituals transmit the reconstructionist philosophy and a certain ethos to its attendees, who assimilate them in various ways. For some members who do not believe in God or who are agnostics, ritual becomes the expression of a connexion to Jewish tradition through community life. Accordingly, I will analyze the religious community’s role in its members' everyday lives and the role of the members in it. Above all, the aim is to apprehend the value that members attribute to their participation to rituals. Special attention will also be given to the meaning that religion has had in members' life trajectories. This thesis contributes to efforts to give account of diversity among Jews in Quebec, and more generally, to advance our knowledge of religious diversity in Quebec.