The history of gendered Jewish internationalism, from the perspective of the history of internationalisms

ABSTRACT

This essay grapples with where gendered Jewish international history belongs, from the perspective of the history of internationalisms. The history of Jewish internationalism is ultimately about Jewish nationalism, including countering the idea that Jewish internationalism is a sign of the absence of a Jewish nationalism. Women must be stirred in as one assesses the relative influences of religion and nation in stories of internationalism.

KEYWORDS:

• Gender
• women
• internationalism
• antisemitism
• cosmopolitanism
• nationalism
• religion

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Notes

1 For the feminist and socialist movements engaging internationalism, see the essays in Sluga and Clavin, Internationalisms.

2 See, for example McCarthy, The British People and the League of Nations and Sluga, “Women, Feminisms and Twentieth-Century Internationalisms.”

3 For Beck, cosmopolitization is distinct from normative cosmopolitanism; it involves “the simultaneous inclusion and exclusion of distant others,” “a kind of imperialistic interconnectedness combining physically radical unequal worlds.” The Metamorphosis of the World, 74. See also the discussion in G. Sluga, “Methodological Nationalism as a useful concept of historical analysis.”

4 For more details, see Sluga, Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism, chapter 1.

5 See the classic rendering, Rupp, Worlds of Women.

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Glenda Sluga

Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History and Capitalism at the European University Institute. Her latest monographs are The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon (Princeton 2021) and Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (University of Pennsylvania 2013). She has also edited the volumes Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge 2017) and Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 (Taylor & Francis 2015).