Global Neighborhoods

Jewish Quarters in Paris, London, and Berlin

Michel S. Laguerre

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780791475522, 9780791475515
• eBook ISBN: 9780791477731
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Looks at how contemporary Jewish neighborhoods interact with both local and transnational influences.

Global Neighborhoods analyzes the organization of everyday life and the social integration of contemporary Jewish neighborhoods in Paris, London, and Berlin. Concentrating on the post-Holocaust era, Michel S. Laguerre explains how each urban diasporic site has followed a different path of development influenced by the local milieu in which it is incorporated. He also considers how technology has enabled extraterritorial relations with Israel and other diasporic enclaves inside and outside the hostland.

Shifting the frame of reference from assimilation theory to globalization theory and the information technology revolution, Laguerre argues that Jewish neighborhoods are not simply transnational social formations, but are fundamentally transglobal entities. Connected to multiple overseas diasporic sites, their interactions reach beyond their homelands, and they develop the logic of their social interactions inside this larger network of relationships. As with all transglobal communities, there is constant movement of people, goods, communications, ideas, images, and capital that sustains and adds vibrancy to everyday life. Since all are connected through the network, Laguerre contends that the variable shape of the local is affected by and affects the global.

Table of contents

• Global Neighborhoods
• Contents
• Figures, Tables, and Maps
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Neighborhood Globalization
• 2. Paris’s Jewish Quarter: Unmade, Remade, and Transformed
• 3. Berlin’s Jewish Quarter: The Local History of the Global
• 4. London’s Jewish Neighborhoods: Nodes of Global Networks
• 5. Residential Districts Versus Business Districts
• 6. The Jewish Quarter as a Global Chronopolis
• 7. Paris’s City Hall and the Jewish Quarter
• 8. Heritage Tourism: The Jewish Quarter as a Theme Park
• 9. The Jewish Quarter,Other Diasporic Sites, and Israel
• 10. Information Technology and the Jewish Neighborhood
• 11. Neighborhoods of Globalization
• 12.Conclusion: Global Neighborhoods in the Global Metropolis
• Notes
• References
• Index