Talk: How to dress appropriately? Dress, migration & belonging between Diaspora & 'Eretz Israel', 1880s-1948
Tuesday 3rd October 2023, 6:00pm
Date: 3 October 2023 | Time: 6PM BST | Venue: Hybrid (Zoom and on-campus) | Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dress-migration-belonging-between-diaspora-eretz-israel-1880s
Join us for the first event in the Parkes Institute 23/24 Events and Seminar Series, a talk from Dr Svenja Bethke on 'How to dress appropriately? Dress, migration and belonging between Diaspora and "Eretz Israel", 1880s-1948'.
Since the end of the 19th century, Zionists aimed to forge a new national Jewish identity and the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Central to this was the idea to become visible as ‘Jewish’, often by using symbols that were pinned onto the clothes. Outward appearance and dress played a key role in expressing feelings of belonging between the European countries of origin and the imagined Jewish homeland. Those who immigrated to ‘Eretz Israel’ continued to discuss how to dress ‘appropriately’ in the pre-state Jewish community as an expression of a Hebrew national culture. However, notions on what the appropriate, ideal way of dressing was differed. My talk will shed light on related discussions and resulting dress modes. I will show how such a focus allows us to shed light on hybrid identities between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ and allows to bring to the fore dynamics of negotiation and conflicts at the microlevel of a migrant community in the process of nation-building.
This talk is free to attend and all are welcome, but registration is required.
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