'An outsider wherever I am?' : transmission of Jewish identity through five generations of a Scottish Jewish family
This thesis casts new light on the immigrant experience, focusing on one extended Scottish Jewish family, the descendents of Rabbi Zvi David Hoppenstein and his wife Sophia, who arrived in Scotland in the early 1880s. Going further than other studies by exploring connections and difference through five generations and across five branches of the family, it uses grounded theory and a feminist perspective and draws on secondary sources like census data and contemporary newspaper reports with the early immigrant generations, oral testimony with the third and fourth generations and an innovative use of social networking platforms to engage with the younger generation. It explores Bourdieuâs theories relating to cultural and economic capital and the main themes are examined through the triple lens of generational change, gender and class. The thesis draws out links between food and memory and examines outmarriage and âreturn inmarriageâ. It explores the fact that antisemitic and negative reactions from the host community, changing in nature through the generations but always present, have had an effect on peopleâs sense of their Jewish identity just as much as has the transmission of Jewish identity at
Frank, Fiona
'An outsider wherever I am?' : transmission of Jewish identity through five generations of a Scottish Jewish family. This thesis casts new light on the immigrant experience, focusing on one extended Scottish Jewish family, the descendents of Rabbi Zvi David Hoppenstein and his wife Sophia, who arrived in Scotland in the early 1880s. Going further than other studies by exploring connections and difference through five generations and across five branches of the family, it uses grounded theory and a feminist perspective and draws on secondary sources like census data and contemporary newspaper reports with the early immigrant generations, oral testimony with the third and fourth generations and an innovative use of social networking platforms to engage with the younger generation. It explores Bourdieuâs theories relating to cultural and economic capital and the main themes are examined through the triple lens of generational change, gender and class. The thesis draws out links between food and memory and examines outmarriage and âreturn inmarriageâ. It explores the fact that antisemitic and negative reactions from the host community, changing in nature through the generations but always present, have had an effect on peopleâs sense of their Jewish identity just as much as has the transmission of Jewish identity at
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