On the Borders of the Nation

Jews and the German–Polish National Conflict in Poznania, 1886–1914

Bibliographic Data

ID11047542
AuthorsElizabeth A Drummond (University of Southern Mississippi, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume29
Issue3
Pages459-475
Publication date2001-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905990120073708
OpenAlexW2125271253
LanguageEN
References cited8

National identity is everywhere constructed through a process of negotiation with other categories of identity—local, regional, class, confessional, and gender. In borderlands, however, there is another element in this negotiation process—the sharing of public space with another national group, an element that further complicates identity formation. Here categories can change and/or function differently than in the interior of a country. In many respects, the construction of Germanness in the province of Poznania [German: Posen ; Polish: Poznań ] proceeded along similar lines as in the rest of the German Empire. German nationalists, both in the eastern provinces and in the rest of the Reich, produced publications and organized lectures about and celebrations of German history and German culture in an effort to mobilize national loyalties in support of policies that would consolidate Germandom both within and without. However, the presence of a Polish challenge in Poznania—the defining problem of the province—complicated constructions of German national identity

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Confessional · Economic history · Element (criminal law · Empire · German · Identity (music · Identity negotiation · National identity · Negotiation · Political science · Sociology · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies

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