Space And Place In Jewish Studies

Author : Barbara E. Mann
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813552125

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Space and Place in Jewish Studies by Barbara E. Mann Pdf

Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived—and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This “spatial turn” equally has the potential to revolutionize Jewish Studies, complicating familiar notions of Jews as “people of the Book,” displaced persons with only a common religious tradition and history to unite them. Space and Place in Jewish Studies embraces these exciting critical developments by investigating what “space” has meant within Jewish culture and tradition—and how notions of “Jewish space,” diaspora, and home continue to resonate within contemporary discourse, bringing space to the foreground as a practical and analytical category. Barbara Mann takes us on a journey from medieval Levantine trade routes to the Eastern European shtetl to the streets of contemporary New York, introducing readers to the variety of ways in which Jews have historically formed communities and created a sense of place for themselves. Combining cutting-edge theory with rabbinics, anthropology, and literary analysis, Mann offers a fresh take on the Jewish experience.

Author : Julia Brauch,Anna Lipphardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Barbara E. Mann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080475019X

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A Place in History by Barbara E. Mann Pdf

A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center and one of the original settlements, established in 1909. The book describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the difficulties and challenges of this endeavor.

Author : Simone Lässig,Miriam Rürup
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : David Kraemer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317375609

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Rabbinic Judaism by David Kraemer Pdf

In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced with a world in existential chaos—both they and their God were rendered homeless. In a religious tradition that had equated Divine approval with peaceful dwelling on the Land, this situation was intolerable. So the rabbis, aspirants for leadership of the post-destruction Jewish community, appropriated inherited traditions and used them as building blocks for a new religious structure. Not unexpectedly, given the circumstances, this new rabbinic formation devoted considerable attention to matters of space and place. Rabbinic Judaism: Space and Place offers the first comprehensive study of spatiality in Rabbinic Judaism of late antiquity, exploring how the rabbis reoriented the Jewish relationship with space and place following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. Drawing upon the insights of theorists such as Tuan and LeFebvre, who define the crisis that "homelessness" represents and argue for the deep relationship of human societies to their places, the book examines the compositions of the rabbis and discovers both a surprisingly aggressive rabbinic spatial imagination as well as places, most notably the synagogue, where rabbinic attention to space and place is suppressed or absent. It concludes that these represent two different but simultaneous rabbinic strategies for re-placing God and Israel—strategies that at the same time allow God and Israel to find a place anywhere. This study offers new insight into the centrality of space and place to rabbinic religion after the destruction of the Temple, and as such would be a key resource to students and scholars interested in rabbinic and ancient Judaism, as well as providing a major new case study for anthropologists interested in the study of space.

Author : Jordan D. Finkin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271071978

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An Inch or Two of Time by Jordan D. Finkin Pdf

In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century had a distinct perspective on this innovative metaphorical vocabulary. As members of a national-ethnic-religious community long denied the rights and privileges of self-determination, with a dramatically internalized sense of exile and landlessness, the Jewish writers at the core of this investigation reimagined their spatial and temporal orientation and embeddedness. They set as the fulcrum of their imagery the metaphorical power of time and space. Where non-Jewish writers might tend to view space as a given—an element of their own sense of belonging to a nation at home in a given territory—the Jewish writers discussed here spatialized time: they created an as-if space out of time, out of history. They understood their writing to function as a kind of organ of perception on its own. Jewish literature thus presents a particularly dynamic system for working out the implications of that understanding, and as such, this book argues, it is an indispensable part of the modern library.

Author : Eyal Ben-Eliyahu
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520293601

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Identity and Territory by Eyal Ben-Eliyahu Pdf

Throughout history, the relationship between Jews and their land has been a vibrant, much-debated topic within the Jewish world and in international political discourse. Identity and Territory explores how ancient conceptions of Israel—of both the land itself and its shifting frontiers and borders—have played a decisive role in forming national and religious identities across the millennia. Through the works of Second Temple period Jews and rabbinic literature, Eyal Ben-Eliyahu examines the role of territorial status, boundaries, mental maps, and holy sites, drawing comparisons to popular Jewish and Christian perceptions of space. Showing how space defines nationhood and how Jewish identity influences perceptions of space, Ben-Eliyahu uncovers varied understandings of the land that resonate with contemporary views of the relationship between territory and ideology.

Author : Nadia Valman,Laurence Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Brooke L. Rogers,Anna Sugiyama
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848881266

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Space and Place: Diversity in Reality, Imagination, and Representation by Brooke L. Rogers,Anna Sugiyama Pdf

Author : Arijit Sen,Lisa Silverman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253011497

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Making Place by Arijit Sen,Lisa Silverman Pdf

An analysis of how city dwellers interact with their social and materials worlds in everyday life and how this affects their bodies. Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are implicated in the making and experiencing of place. The contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and place, and encourages consideration of the various levels—from the personal to the planetary—at which spatial change occurs. The book’s case studies come from Costa Rica, Colombia, India, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. “Rich, diverse, and provocative meditations on place and identity formation . . . it builds on the previous scholarship on bodies, memory and place while also moving our understanding of this theme in a refreshing and engaging direction.” —Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia

Author : Steven E. Aschheim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110596939

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Fragile Spaces by Steven E. Aschheim Pdf

This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of political, cultural and personal rupture, as well as the manifold ways in which various Jewish intellectuals, politicians (and occasionally spies!) sought to respond to these ruptures and carve out new, sometimes profound, sometimes fanciful, options of thought and action. It also delves critically into the attacks on liberal and Enlightenment humanism. In almost all the essays the fragility of things is palpably present and the book touches on some of the ironies, problematics and functions of responses to that condition. The work mirrors the author's ongoing fascination with the always fraught, fragile and creatively fecund confrontation of Jews (and others) with European modernity, its history, politics, culture and self-definition. In a time of increasing anxiety and feelings of fragility, this work may be helpful in understanding how people at an earlier (and sometimes contemporary) period sought to come to terms with a similar predicament.

Author : Natalia Aleksiun,Hana Kubátová
Publisher : Wallstein Verlag
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783835346796

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Places, Spaces, and Voids in the Holocaust by Natalia Aleksiun,Hana Kubátová Pdf

The EHS issues are thematic. Each issue features a selection of peer-reviewed research articles, which offer novel perspectives on the main theme. Includes: - Andrea Löw and Kim Wünschman: Film and the Reordering of City Space in Nazi Germany: The Demolition of the Munich Main Synagogue - Michal Frankl: Cast out of Civilized Society. Refugees in the No Man`s Land between Slovakia and Hungary in 1938 - Beate Meyer: Foreign Jews in Nazi Germany - Protected or Persecuted? Preliminary Results of a New Study - Dominique Schröder: Writing the Camps, Shifting the Limits of Language: Toward a Semantics of the Concentration Camps? - Tal Bruttmann, Stefan Hördler, and Christoph Kreutzmüller: A Paradoxical Panorama: Aspects of Space in Lili Jacob's Album - Irina Rebrova: Jewish Accounts of Soviet Evacuation to the North Caucasus - Malena Chinski: A New Address for Holocaust Research: Michel Borwicz and Joseph Wulf in Paris, 1947–1951 - Anna Engelking: "Our own traitor" as the Focal Point of Belarusian Folk Narrative on Local Perpetrators of the Holocaust - Hannah Wilson: The Memoryscape of Sobibór Death Camp: Commemoration and Materiality Der Band erscheint vollständig in englischer Sprache.

Author : Andrew Bush
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813549545

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Jewish Studies by Andrew Bush Pdf

This text introduces the basic approach of the 'Key Words in Jewish Studies' series by organizing discussion around key concepts in the field that have emerged over the last two centuries: history and science, race and religion, self and community, identity and memory.

Author : Erica Lehrer,Michael Meng
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : 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 : 48,9 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.