Jewish Pimps, Prostitutes and Campaigners in a Transnational German and British Context, 1875–1940

德国和英国跨国背景下的犹太皮条客、妓女和活动家，1875 年至 1940 年

• 批准号: 429039799
• 负责人: Dr. Stefanie Fischer-Wolff
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/429039799?language=en
• 关键词: Jewish; Pimps; Prostitutes; Campaigners; Transnational

This research project draws on the expertise of a project group specializing in the study of gender, antisemitism and migration to investigate the phenomenon of Jewish involvement in the sex trade. While in the late nineteenth century up until the Second World War, Jews were consistently demonized by antisemites because of their role in the trade as prostitutes, pimps and brothel owners, they have featured only marginally in recent studies of prostitution that in recent years has experienced a renewed interest. Since 2020, two postdoctoral researchers have explored Jews and the sex trade, 1875-1940, in British, German and transnational contexts. Largely neglected by historians of Jewish history, and the history of Antisemitism this research project looks beyond institutional frameworks that governed the everyday lives of Jewish prostitutes in the age of the great Jewish migration to expose a new understanding of international mobility in the era of modern globalization. Our research project shows that Jewish prostitutes were never merely passive objects. This study of Jewish prostitutes places the women center stage and unravels their agency behind moral politics, criminalization, and male fantasies. Such an approach allows us to recast the focus away from politicians, state reformers and national anti-trafficking campaigners, to consider the Jewish women’s experiences as historical actors as they navigated unfamiliar relationships with men (pimps, physicians, judges and the police) who exercised control over their bodies. Both the UK and Germany housed ports and other spatial sites that are key to analyzing Jews’ interaction with the sex trade. An understanding of how Jewish women navigated the gendered spaces and the metaphorical codings of Bremen, Hamburg, Portsmouth and Southampton reveals their power of negotiation and highlight their agency. Daniel Lee (PI), Stefanie Fischer (PI) mentor the postdoctoral historians who use unpublished and recently-released sources and testimonies. Our main objective is to produce a more nuanced interpretation of the ties between sex work, migration and trafficking in persons and to build a UK-German network that helps fight human trafficking. Through network meetings, training sessions, and public workshops, the research project aims to communicate ist findings beyond traditional academic circles so that it will, ultimately, have an impact on law and law enforcement, and help reduce vulnerabilities for sex workers and victims of human trafficking.

该研究项目利用专门研究性别、反犹太主义和移民问题的项目小组的专门知识，调查犹太人参与性交易的现象。虽然在世纪末直至第二次世界大战期间，犹太人一直被反犹主义者妖魔化，因为他们在卖淫业中扮演着妓女、皮条客和妓院老板的角色，但在最近几年重新引起人们兴趣的卖淫研究中，犹太人只占很小的比例。自2020年以来，两位博士后研究人员在英国，德国和跨国背景下探索了1875-1940年的犹太人和性交易。被犹太历史学家和反犹太主义历史学家所忽视的是，这个研究项目超越了在伟大的犹太移民时代统治犹太妓女日常生活的制度框架，以揭示现代全球化时代对国际流动性的新理解。我们的研究项目表明，犹太妓女从来不仅仅是被动的对象。本书以犹太妓女为研究对象，将女性置于舞台中心，揭示了她们在道德政治、犯罪化和男性幻想背后的作用。这种方法使我们能够将重点从政治家，国家改革者和国家反贩运活动家身上转移开来，将犹太妇女的经历视为历史行为者，因为她们与控制自己身体的男人（皮条客，医生，法官和警察）建立了不熟悉的关系。英国和德国都有港口和其他空间场所，这些场所是分析犹太人与性交易互动的关键。对犹太妇女如何在性别空间和不莱梅、汉堡、朴茨茅斯和南安普顿的隐喻编码中航行的理解揭示了她们的谈判力量，突出了她们的代理权。丹尼尔李（PI），斯蒂芬妮菲舍尔（PI）导师博士后历史学家谁使用未发表和最近发布的来源和证词。我们的主要目标是对性工作、移民和人口贩运之间的联系做出更细致的解释，并建立一个有助于打击人口贩运的英国-德国网络。通过网络会议、培训课程和公共研讨会，该研究项目旨在将其研究结果传播到传统学术界之外，以便最终对法律和执法产生影响，并帮助减少性工作者和人口贩运受害者的脆弱性。