Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Central European History
Angaben zur Quelle:
56,3 (2023) 357-379
Keywords:
Blau-Weiss (Youth movement)
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Youth movements, Jewish History 20th century
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Zionism History 20th century
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Jewish youth Clothing
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Jews Identity
Abstract:
Looking at Blau-Weiss as the first Zionist youth movement in Germany between 1912 and 1927, the article examines the role of dress in expressing new feelings of national belonging as “Jewish” in modern Germany. Drawing on publications of the movement, memoirs, and photographs, the article shows how Blau-Weiss members tried to become visible as Jews while at the same time trying to copy the dress codes of the nationalist German youth movement Wandervogel. It further shows how, after the First World War, Blau-Weiss tried to forge their own way of Zionist dressing. The article argues that it was not the actual clothes worn or the perception of others that was most crucial to the creation of a national Jewish identity, but rather the inner function that reflections and debates on dress had for Blau-Weiss members in forging and redefining their feelings of belonging and identification as Zionist Jews in Germany.
DOI:
10.1017/S0008938922001078
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