Susanne Lachenicht & Kirsten Heinsohn 
Diaspora Identities [PDF ebook] 
Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Past and Present

Historical work on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries suggests that as nation-states were solidifying throughout Western Europe, exiled groups tended to develop rival national identities—an occurrence that had been fairly uncommon in the two preceding centuries. Diaspora Identities draws on eight case studies, ranging from the early modern period through the twentieth century, to explore the interconnectedness of exile, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism as concepts, ideals, attitudes, and strategies among diasporic groups.

Die hier versammelten Studien eröffnen neue Perspektiven auf Nationalismus und Kosmopolitismus. Sie machen deutlich, dass schon vor dem »nationalen « 19. Jahrhundert im Kontext von Diaspora, Exil und Migration Identitäten und Verhaltensweisen entstanden, die zugleich kosmopolitisch und nationalistisch waren.

Table of Content

Table of Contents

Diaspora Identities: Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
in Past and Present – An introduction
Susanne Lachenicht/Kirsten Heinsohn 7

‘Une Seconde Patrie’: The Irish Colleges, Paris, in the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries
Liam Chambers16

Sephardi Jews – Cosmopolitans in the Atlantic World?
Susanne Lachenicht31

From France to le Refuge: The Huguenots’ Multiple Identities
Bertrand van Ruymbeke52

‘Apostles of the Nation and Pilgrims of Freedom’:
Religious Representations of Exile in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Maurizio Isabella68

Nationalism and Anti-Cosmopolitanism in the
Russian Radical Right and Soviet Ideology
Frank Grüner93

Between Nationalism and Internationalism: Displaced Persons
at the UNRRA University of Munich
Anna Holian109

Diaspora as Possibility and Task ?
the Plea of a German-Jewish Woman
Kirsten Heinsohn130

‘The Song of Everyone without a Homeland’:
A Palestinian Writer in ‘Cosmopolitan’ Beirut
Kate Daniels148

Contributors162

About the author

Kirsten Heinsohn ist stellvertretende Direktorin der Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg und Vorsitzende des Arbeitskreises für Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung.