Jewish Topographies

Author : Julia Brauch,Anna Lipphardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317111016

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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 : Julia Brauch,Anna Lipphardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317111009

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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 : Julia Brauch,Anna Lipphardt,Alexandra Nocke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Jewish diaspora
ISBN : 1315590441

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Jewish Topographies by Julia Brauch,Anna Lipphardt,Alexandra Nocke Pdf

Author : Simone Lässig,Miriam Rürup
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Maja Gildin Zuckerman,Jakob Egholm Feldt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000477955

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New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History by Maja Gildin Zuckerman,Jakob Egholm Feldt Pdf

This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural history, this book unfolds situations and events, where Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history became useful, meaningful, and acted upon as a site of causal explanations. Inspired by classical American pragmatism and more recent French pragmatism, we present a new perspective on Jewish cultural history in which the experiences, problems, and actions of people are at the center of reconstructions of historical causalities and projections of future horizons. The book shows how boundaries between Jewish and non-Jewish are not a priori given but are instead repeatedly experienced in a variety of situations and then acted upon as matters of facts. In different ways and on different scales, these studies show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.

Author : Marion Kaplan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9780300244250

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Hitler’s Jewish Refugees by Marion Kaplan Pdf

An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe This riveting book describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler's regime and then lived in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals these refugees experienced, Marion Kaplan also highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories, while having to beg strangers for kindness. Portugal's dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar, admitted the largest number of Jews fleeing westward--tens of thousands of them--but then set his secret police on those who did not move along quickly enough. Yet Portugal's people left a lasting impression on refugees for their caring and generosity. Most refugees in Portugal showed strength and stamina as they faced unimagined challenges. An emotional history of fleeing, this book probes how specific locations touched refugees' inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation.

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 : 55,5 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 : Nancy Sinkoff,Howard N. Lupovitch,James Loeffler,Jonathan Karp
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814349694

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A Jew in the Street by Nancy Sinkoff,Howard N. Lupovitch,James Loeffler,Jonathan Karp Pdf

Reconsidering how early modern and modern Jews navigated schisms between Jewish community and European society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800857421

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Framing Jewish Culture by Simon J. Bronner Pdf

Modernity offers people choices about who they want to be and how they want to appear to others. The way in which Jews choose to frame their identity establishes the dynamic of their social relations with other Jews and non-Jews - a dynamic complicated by how non-Jews position the boundaries around what and who they define as Jewish. This book uncovers these processes, historically, as well as in contemporary behavior, and finds explanations for the various manifestations, in feeling and action, of 'being Jewish.' Boundaries and borders raise fundamental questions about the difference between Jews and non-Jews. At root, the question is how 'Jewish' is understood in social situations where people recognize or construct boundaries between their own identity and those of others. The question is important because this is by definition the point at which the lines of demarcation between Jews and non-Jews, and between different groupings of Jews, are negotiated. Collectively, the contributors to the book expand our understanding of the social dynamics of framing Jewish identity. The book opens with an introduction that locates the issues raised by the contributors in terms of the scholarly traditions from which they have evolved. Part I presents four essays dealing with the construction and maintenance of boundaries - two by scholars showing how boundaries come to be etched on an ethnic landscape and two by activists who question and adjust distinctions among neighbors. Part II focuses on expressive means of conveying identity and memory, while, in Part III, the discussion turns to museum exhibitions and festive performances as locations for the negotiation of identity in the public sphere. A lively discussion forum concludes the book with a consideration of the paradoxes of Jewish heritage revival in Poland, and the perception of that revival by Jews and non-Jews. *** ..".these essays help us understand the social dynamics of Jewish identity and how identity is constructed in modern life." -- AJL Reviews, February/March 2015 (Series: Jewish Cultural Studies - Vol. 4) [Subject: Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies]

Author : Nadia Valman,Laurence Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135048556

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The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures by Nadia Valman,Laurence Roth Pdf

The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies. How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.

Author : Heidi A. Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317817338

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Digital Judaism by Heidi A. Campbell Pdf

In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negotiate with digital culture in particular ways, situating such observations within a wider discourse of how Jewish groups throughout history have utilized communication technologies to maintain their Jewish identities across time and space. Chapters address issues related to the negotiation of authority between online users and offline religious leaders and institutions not only within ultra-Orthodox communities, but also within the broader Jewish religious culture, taking into account how Jewish engagement with media in Israel and the diaspora raises a number of important issues related to Jewish community and identity. Featuring recent scholarship by leading and emerging scholars of Judaism and media, Digital Judaism is an invaluable resource for researchers in new media, religion and digital culture.

Author : Yulia Egorova,Shahid Perwez
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199929214

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The Jews of Andhra Pradesh by Yulia Egorova,Shahid Perwez Pdf

This is the first book devoted to the Bene Ephraim—a group of former untouchables in Andhra Pradesh who have claimed Jewish identity for themselves.

Author : Phil Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190064457

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Sounding Jewish in Berlin by Phil Alexander Pdf

How can a traditional music with little apparent historical connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century? In Sounding Jewish in Berlin, author Phil Alexander explores the dialogue between the city's contemporary klezmer scene and the street-level creativity that has become a hallmark of Berlin's decidedly modern urbanity and cosmopolitanism. By tracing how klezmer music engages with the spaces and symbolic meanings of the city, Alexander sheds light on how this Eastern European Jewish folk music has become not just a product but also a producer of Berlin. This engaging study of Berlin's dynamic Yiddish music scene brings together ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and urban geography to evoke the sounds, atmospheres, and performance spaces through which klezmer musicians have built a lively set of musical networks in the city. Transcending a restrictive framework that considers this music solely in the context of troubled German-Jewish history and notions of guilt and absence, Alexander shows how Berlin's current klezmer communitya diverse group of Jewish and non-Jewish performersimaginatively blend the genre's traditional musical language with characteristically local tones to forge an adaptable and distinctively twenty-first-century version of klezmer. Ultimately, the music's vital presence in Berlin is powerful evidence that if traditional music is to remain audible amid the noise of the urban, it must become a meaningful part of that noise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004366398

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International Migrations in the Victorian Era by Anonim Pdf

International Migrations in the Victorian Era covers a wide range of case studies to unveil the complexity of transnational circulations and connections in the 19th century. It balances different scales of analysis: individual, local, regional, national and transnational.