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Making and Remaking the Jewish East End: Space, Language and Time

建造和改造犹太东区：空间、语言和时间

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V001345/1
负责人：
Nadia Valman
金额：
$ 44.07万
依托单位：
Queen Mary University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV001345%2F1
关键词：
Making Remaking Jewish East End

项目摘要

While British attitudes to immigration from the Victorian period onwards have increasingly come under scrutiny, the experience of immigrant minorities remains under-researched. Our project focuses on one instructive case study: the history of Jewish immigrants to east London, their children and grandchildren. Around 150,000 Jews migrated to Britain in the late Victorian period, the majority settling in east London. Their story has largely been written from sources produced by the leaders of the established Anglo-Jewish community, who regarded immigrant Jews as profoundly different from them - poor, pious and politically radical - and who had little understanding of the East End environment where Jewish immigrants settled. However, this perspective has limited our understanding of Jewish culture and social change in modern London.Our project seeks instead to attend to the voices of working-class and lower middle-class East End Jews. Crucially, this entails study of the Yiddish language culture of Jewish immigrants, which flourished in east London in the early twentieth century and subsequently became a formative influence on Jewish culture after World War II. The project will analyse a body of rarely used sources in Yiddish and English-language popular culture, drawing on literature, periodicals, theatre, songs, and oral history recordings. Contesting the still dominant view of Yiddish-speaking immigrants as pliable subjects moulded by philanthropy and schooling, our study will examine the forms of agency and creativity they exerted in the process of acculturation. Instead of assuming that Jewish immigrant culture in the East End was inward- and backward-looking, we will approach it as a mobile, hybrid and transnational phenomenon. For immigrants and their children, we contend, the East End was experienced not as a ghetto but through relationships to other social and cultural spaces: to the West End Jewish world but also to European or north American centres of Jewish culture, to Cockney London and to other immigrant communities. We will explore how this diasporic hybridity was enacted in immigrant culture, including London Yiddish - a dynamic language that absorbed and adapted words, ideas and literary forms from eastern Europe to the East End. In the postwar period, the Jewish East End continued to be remade. As Jews migrated to suburbs, it became a temporal as well as a spatial marker. We will examine how, in novels, memoirs and oral histories, looking back to the East End, and the Yiddish culture in which many Jews were raised, produced new understandings of the present. The research will be undertaken by two leading academics in the field of British Jewish studies from the disciplines of History and English, and a postdoctoral researcher experienced in Yiddish-language text and performance. Academic outputs will include articles, conference papers, an anthology of translated Yiddish literature and the digitization and transcription of oral history recordings. Impact activities will take place with partner institutions in north and east London and include public lectures, a rehearsed reading of London Yiddish drama, a guided walk in London's East End and a short film. A sound installation and creative workshops will involve contemporary East Enders with local oral history and reflection on east London's hybrid cultures in the past and present.The project's multi-dimensional approach to the history of Jewish immigration, acculturation and integration will speak to the history of other immigrant populations in Britain. As part of our impact programme we will bring together comparative perspectives from east London community history organisations and other historians of immigration, whose expertise will help shape our research. Documenting the multi-relational character of immigrant cultures in the past will, we believe, generate a more complex and empathetic understanding of immigrant cultures in the present.

虽然从维多利亚时代开始，英国对移民的态度越来越受到审查，但移民少数民族的经历仍然没有得到充分研究。我们的项目集中在一个有启发性的案例研究：犹太移民到东伦敦的历史，他们的子女和孙辈。大约15万犹太人在维多利亚时代后期移民到英国，大多数定居在东伦敦。他们的故事主要是根据盎格鲁-犹太社区的领导人提供的资料撰写的，这些领导人认为移民犹太人与他们有着深刻的不同--贫穷、虔诚和政治激进--他们对犹太移民定居的伦敦东区的环境几乎一无所知。然而，这种观点限制了我们对现代伦敦犹太文化和社会变革的理解。我们的项目旨在关注伦敦东区工人阶级和中下层犹太人的声音。至关重要的是，这需要研究犹太移民的意第绪语文化，这种语言在世纪早期在东伦敦蓬勃发展，随后在第二次世界大战后对犹太文化产生了影响。该项目将分析意第绪语和英语流行文化中很少使用的来源，借鉴文学，期刊，戏剧，歌曲和口述历史记录。反对仍然占主导地位的意第绪语移民作为慈善事业和学校教育塑造的柔韧主体的观点，我们的研究将探讨他们在文化适应过程中发挥的作用和创造力的形式。与其假设伦敦东区的犹太移民文化是内向和向后看的，我们将把它视为一种移动的、混合的和跨国的现象。我们认为，对于移民及其子女来说，伦敦东区并不是一个犹太人聚居区，而是通过与其他社会和文化空间的关系来体验的：与伦敦西区犹太人世界的关系，也与欧洲或北美犹太文化中心的关系，与伦敦伦敦的关系，以及与其他移民社区的关系。我们将探讨这种流散的混合是如何在移民文化，包括伦敦意第绪语-一个动态的语言，吸收和适应的话，思想和文学形式从东欧到伦敦东区制定。在战后时期，犹太人的伦敦东区继续重建。随着犹太人迁移到郊区，它成为一个时间和空间标记。我们将研究如何，在小说，回忆录和口述历史，回顾伦敦东区，和意第绪文化，其中许多犹太人提出，产生了新的理解现在。这项研究将由来自历史和英语学科的英国犹太研究领域的两位领先学者以及一位在意第绪语文本和表演方面经验丰富的博士后研究员进行。学术产出将包括文章、会议文件、翻译的意第绪语文学选集以及口述历史录音的数字化和转录。影响活动将与伦敦北部和东伦敦的伙伴机构一起进行，包括公开讲座、伦敦意第绪语戏剧的阅读、在伦敦伦敦东区的导游散步和一部短片。一个声音装置和创意工作坊将涉及当代东伦敦人与当地的口述历史和反思东伦敦的混合文化在过去和现在。该项目的多维度的方法来犹太移民，文化适应和融合的历史将说话的其他移民人口在英国的历史。作为我们的影响力计划的一部分，我们将汇集来自东伦敦社区历史组织和其他移民历史学家的比较观点，他们的专业知识将有助于塑造我们的研究。我们相信，记录过去移民文化的多元关系特征将使我们对现在的移民文化有一个更复杂和更有同情心的理解。