Jewish Space In Central And Eastern Europe

Author : Larisa Lempertienė,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443806220

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Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe by Larisa Lempertienė,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė Pdf

This volume is a compilation of articles written by renowned scholars and promising young researchers, in which the Jewish space is revealed as diverse forms of life and relations that developed in the rich context of urbanism, social life, leisure and economic activities, and coexistence with the non-Jewish world. Having undergone various transformations, the Jewish space has preserved its authenticity and individuality. In the book, the Jewish space is analysed in a wide chronological perspective from the viewpoint of literature, history, architecture and social relations. This volume will be of interest to anyone interested in various forms of entertainment (sports, leisure, cabaret parties), living, participation in social life, reading and writing of Jews in Eastern European towns and shtetls in the 19th and early 20th century.

Author : Maria Cieśla,Saskia Coenen Snyder,Eszter Gantner,Frank Golczewski,François Guesnet,Felix Heinert,Jürgen Heyde,Alexis Hofmeister,Wolfgang Kaschuba,Martin Kindermann,Nora Lafi,Ruth Leiserowitz,Diana I. Popescu,Monica Rüthers,Anne-Christin Saß,Joachim Schlör,Magdalena Waligórska,Mirjam Zadoff
Publisher : Neofelis Verlag
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783943414899

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Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context by Maria Cieśla,Saskia Coenen Snyder,Eszter Gantner,Frank Golczewski,François Guesnet,Felix Heinert,Jürgen Heyde,Alexis Hofmeister,Wolfgang Kaschuba,Martin Kindermann,Nora Lafi,Ruth Leiserowitz,Diana I. Popescu,Monica Rüthers,Anne-Christin Saß,Joachim Schlör,Magdalena Waligórska,Mirjam Zadoff Pdf

The unifying thread of the interdisciplinary volume Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context is the fact that Jewish spaces are almost always generated in relation to non-Jewish spaces; they determine and influence each other. This general phenomenon will be scrutinized and put to the test again and again in a varied collection of articles by international experienced researchers as well as junior scholars using various urban contexts and discourses as data. From the viewpoints of different temporal and regional research traditions and disciplines the contributors deal with the question of how Jewish and non-Jewish spaces are imagined, constructed, negotiated and intertwined. All examples and case studies together create a mosaic of possibilities for the construction of Jewish and non-Jewish spaces in different settings. The list of examined topics ranges from synagogues to ghettos, from urban neighborhoods to cafés and festivals, from art to literature. This diversity makes the volume a challenging effort of giving an overview of the current academic discussion in Europe and beyond. Although the majority of the contributions are focused on Central and Eastern Europe, a more general tendency becomes apparent in all articles: the negotiation of urban spaces seems to be a complex and ambivalent process in which a large number of participants are involved. In this regard, the volume would also like to contribute to trans-disciplinary urban studies and critical research on spatial relations.

Author : Erika Szívós,Michael Laurence Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1033658396

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Historic Jewish Spaces in Central and Eastern European Cities by Erika Szívós,Michael Laurence Miller Pdf

Author : Ezra Mendelsohn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0253204186

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The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars by Ezra Mendelsohn Pdf

"... a carefully crafted and important book... a first-class contribution to the literature on modern Europe." --American Historical Review "... valuable... the first historical work to attempt a 'synthetic sketch' of the problems indicated in the title." --Journal of Polish Jewish Studies An illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic condition of East Central European Jewry, the book focuses on the internal life of Jewish communities in the region and on the relationships between Jews and gentiles in a nationalist environment.

Author : Erica Lehrer,Michael Meng
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253015068

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Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland by Erica Lehrer,Michael Meng Pdf

Essays on the restoration and revival of Jewish sites in post-Holocaust, post-Communist Poland: “Highly recommended.” —Choice In a time of national introspection regarding the country’s involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this book explore issues of the restoration, restitution, memorializing, and tourism that have brought present inhabitants into contact with initiatives to revive Jewish sites. They reveal that an emergent Jewish presence in both urban and rural landscapes exists in conflict and collaboration with other remembered minorities, engaging in complex negotiations with local, regional, national, and international groups and interests. With its emphasis on spaces and built environments, this volume illuminates the role of the material world in the complex encounter with the Jewish past in contemporary Poland. “Evokes a revolution—the word is not too strong—in the possibilities, new goals, and shifting facts on the ground associated with Jewish history and lives in Poland today.” —Canadian Jewish News

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004280632

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Space and Conversion in Global Perspective by Anonim Pdf

Space and Conversion in Global Perspective examines conversion in connection with spatial setting, mobility, and interiority. The approach is global and encompasses multiple religions. Conversion emerges as a powerful force of early modern globalization.

Author : Simone Lässig,Miriam Rürup
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785335549

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Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History by Simone Lässig,Miriam Rürup Pdf

What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of “the spatial,” these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional, political, institutional, and imaginative realms, as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together, they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema, always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity.

Author : Julia Brauch,Anna Lipphardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317111016

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Jewish Topographies by Julia Brauch,Anna Lipphardt Pdf

How have Jews experienced their environments and how have they engaged with specific places? How do Jewish spaces emerge, how are they contested, performed and used? With these questions in mind, this anthology focuses on the production of Jewish space and lived Jewish spaces and sheds light on their diversity, inter-connectedness and multi-dimensionality. By exploring historical and contemporary case studies from around the world, the essays collected here shift the temporal focus generally applied to Jewish civilization to a spatially oriented perspective. The reader encounters sites such as the gardens cultivated in the Ghettos during World War II, the Israeli development town of Netivot, Thornhill, an Orthodox suburb of Toronto, or new virtual sites of Jewish (Second) Life on the Internet, and learns about the Jewish landkentenish movement in Interwar Poland, the Jewish connection to the sea and the culinary landscapes of Russian Jews in New York. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, with a strong foothold in cultural history and cultural anthropology, this anthology introduces new methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of the spatial aspects of Jewish civilization.

Author : Richard I. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199934249

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Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History by Richard I. Cohen Pdf

"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Author : Elana Shapira
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350172296

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Designing Transformation by Elana Shapira Pdf

Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe, and in the respective countries where they settled following the Nazi's rise to power. This book explores how Jewish architects and patrons influenced and reformed the design of towns and cities through commercial buildings, urban landscaping and other material culture. It also examines how modern identities evolved in the context of migration, commercial and professional networks, and in relation to the conflict between nationalist ideologies and international aspirations in Central Europe and beyond. Pointing to the production within cultural platforms shared by Jews and Christians, the book's research sheds new light on the importance of integrating Jews into Central European design and aesthetic history. Leading historians, curators, archivists and architects present their critical analyses further to 'design' the past and push forward a transformation in the historical consciousness of Central Europe. By reconsidering the seminal role of Central European émigré and exiled architects and designers in shaping today's global design cultures, this book further strengthens humanistic, progressive and pluralistic cultural trends in Europe today.

Author : Emília Barna,Tamás Tófalvy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351709798

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Made in Hungary by Emília Barna,Tamás Tófalvy Pdf

Emília Barna is Assistant Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She is a founding member and Chair of IASPM Hungary, editor of Zenei Hálózatok Folyóirat (Music Networks Journal), and Advisory Board Member of IASPM@Journal. Tamás Tófalvy is Assistant Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He was the founding Chair and is the current Vice-Chair of IASPM Hungary.

Author : Steven Fine
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004370098

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Jewish Religious Architecture by Steven Fine Pdf

Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural tradition.

Author : Richard I. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199934256

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Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History by Richard I. Cohen Pdf

Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, Volume XXVI of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry examines the visual revolution that has overtaken Jewish cultural life in the twentieth century onwards, with special attention given to the evolution of Jewish museums. Bringing together leading curators and scholars, Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History treats various forms of Jewish representation in museums in Europe and the United States before the Second World War and inquires into the nature and proliferation of Jewish museums following the Holocaust and the fall of Communism in Western and Eastern Europe. In addition, a pair of essays dedicated to six exhibitions that took place in Israel in 2008 to mark six decades of Israeli art raises significant issues on the relationship between art and gender, and art and politics. An introductory essay highlights the dramatic transformation in the appreciation of the visual in Jewish culture. The scope of the symposium offers one of the first scholarly attempts to treat this theme in several countries. Also featured in this volume are a provocative essay on the nature of antisemitism in twentieth-century English society; review essays on Jewish fundamentalism and recent works on the subject of the Holocaust in occupied Soviet territories; and reviews of new titles in Jewish Studies..

Author : Glenn Dynner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199988518

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Yankel's Tavern by Glenn Dynner Pdf

In Yankel's Tavern, Glenn Dynner investigates the role of Jews in tavern-keeping in the Kingdom of Poland between 1815 and the uprising of 1863-4 and its aftermath.

Author : Phil Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190064433

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Sounding Jewish in Berlin by Phil Alexander Pdf

This book tells the story of Berlin's dynamic klezmer scene, tracing the ongoing dialogue between traditional Yiddish folk music and the creativity and modern urbanity of the German capital. It reveals how contemporary klezmer has become not only a product but also a producer of the city.