TY  - JOUR
A1  - Siegel, Björn
T1  - “Creating a Maritime Future”
T2  - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany
T2  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V.
N2  - This article explores the importance of the port city of Hamburg in the evolving discourses on the creation of a maritime future, a vision which became influential in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. While some Jewish representatives in the city aimed at preserving and intertwining Hanseatic and Jewish traditions in order to secure a Jewish presence in the port city under the pressure of the Nazi regime and thereafter, others wanted to create new emigration opportunities, especially to Mandatory Palestine, and create a Jewish maritime future in Eretz Israel. Different Zionist organizations supported the newly evolving maritime ideas, such as the “conquest of the sea”, and promoted the image of a Jewish seafaring nation. Despite the difficulties in the 1940s, these concepts gained influence post-1945 and led to the foundation of the fishery kibbutz “Zerubavel” in Blankenese/Hamburg. However, the idea of a Hanseatic Jewish future also remained influential and illustrates how differently a “Jewish maritime future” was imagined and used to link past, present and future.
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/58557
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-585575
SN  - 978-3-86956-552-1
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
IS  - 28
SP  - 68
EP  - 82
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -