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

该研究项目利用一个专门研究性别、反犹太主义和移民问题的项目组的专门知识，来调查性交易中的犹太人现象。虽然在十九世纪末直到第二次世界大战，犹太人一直被反犹太主义者妖魔化，因为他们在卖淫中扮演着妓女、皮条客和妓院老板的角色，但在最近几年重新引起关注的卖淫研究中，他们只占了很小的比例。自2020年以来，两名博士后研究人员在英国、德国和跨国背景下研究了犹太人和1875年至1940年的性交易。这个研究项目在很大程度上被犹太历史学家和反犹太主义历史学家忽视，它超越了在犹太大移民时代统治犹太妓女日常生活的制度框架，以揭示对现代全球化时代国际流动性的新理解。我们的研究项目表明，犹太妓女从来不只是被动的物体。这项关于犹太妓女的研究将女性置于中心舞台，并揭开了她们在道德政治、刑事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客、国家改革者和国家反人口贩运活动家转移到考虑犹太妇女作为历史参与者的经历，因为她们与控制自己身体的男人(皮条客、医生、法官和警察)建立了陌生的关系。英国和德国都有港口和其他空间网站，这些网站是分析犹太人与性交易互动的关键。对犹太女性如何在性别空间和不来梅、汉堡、朴茨茅斯和南安普顿的隐喻编码中穿梭的理解揭示了她们的谈判能力，并突出了她们的作用。Daniel Lee(PI)，Stefan ie Fischer(PI)指导使用未发表和最近发布的来源和证词的博士后历史学家。我们的主要目标是对性工作、移民和人口贩运之间的关系做出更微妙的解释，并建立一个帮助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成果传达到传统学术界之外，从而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。

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.