University of Amsterdam ‘I really learned to pray by heart’ Religious manifestations in camp Westerbork (1939-1945) Tim van Noord -10624236 30-6-2015
[email protected] Master Thesis ‘Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ Supervisors: Prof. dr. Johannes Houwink ten Cate and Dr. Karel Berkhoff, NIOD Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................3 0.1. Historiography ......................................................................................................................3 0.2. Structure ..............................................................................................................................6 0.3. Camp Westerbork (1939-1945) .............................................................................................7 Chapter 1: History of the Jews in the Netherlands (1870-1940) ..................................................... 11 1.1 A religious symbiosis between old and new ......................................................................... 11 1.2. The Zionist project .............................................................................................................. 14 1.3. Anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism .......................................................................................... 16 1.4. Demography and economics .............................................................................................. 17 1.6. Classifying ‘Jewishness’......................................................................................................