Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society

by Richard I. Cohen (Editor)

Overview

Notions of place have always permeated Jewish life and consciousness. The Babylonian Talmud was pitted against the Jerusalem Talmud; the worlds of Sepharad and Ashkenaz were viewed as two pillars of the Jewish experience; the diaspora was conceived as a wholly different experience from that of Eretz Israel; and Jews from Eastern Europe and "German Jews" were often seen as mirror opposites, whereas Jews under Islam were often characterized pejoratively, especially because of their allegedly uncultured surroundings. Place, or makom, is a strategic opportunity to explore the tensions that characterize Jewish culture in modernity, between the sacred and the secular, the local and the global, the historical and the virtual, Jewish culture and others. The plasticity of the term includes particular geographic places and their cultural landscapes, theological allusions, and an array of other symbolic relations between locus, location, and the production of culture. The 30th volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry includes twelve essays that deal with various aspects of particular places, making each location a focal point for understanding Jewish life and culture. Scholars from the United States, Europe, and Israel have used their disciplinary skills to shed light on the vicissitudes of the 20th century in relation to place and Jewish culture. Their essays continue the ongoing discussion in this realm and provide further insights into the historiographical turn in Jewish studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190912642
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/12/2018
Series:	Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Richard I. Cohen is the academic director of the Israel Center of Research Excellence (I-Core) for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World. Among his many publications are The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust and Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe. He is an Emeritus Professor of Jewish History in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Symposium Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society Natan M. Meir, Home for the Homeless? The Hekdesh in Eastern Europe Yuval Tal, The Social Logic of Colonial Anti-Judaism: Revisiting the Anti-Jewish Crisis in French Algeria, 1889-1902 Scott Ury, The Urban Origins of Jewish Degeneration: The Modern City and the End of the Jews, 1900-1939 Saskia Coenen Snyder, An Urban Semiotics of War: Signs and Sounds in Nazi- occupied Amsterdam Andrea A. Sinn, Restoring and Reconstructing: Munich for Jews after the Second World War Vivian Liska, Jewish Displacement as Experience and Metaphor in 20th-Century European Thought Asher D. Biemann, Imagining a Homeland: The Election of Place and Time Mirjam Rajner, The Orient in Jewish Artistic Creativity: The Case of Maurycy Gottlieb Alec Mishory, Artists' Colonies in Israel Björn Siegel, Envisioning a Jewish Maritime Space: Arnold Bernstein and the Emergence of a Jewish Shipping Industry in the Interwar Years Roy Greenwald, Shifting Places: Representations of Sand in Pre-state Hebrew Poetry Vered Madar, Where is Paradise? Place and Time in the Memoirs of Women from Yemen Book Reviews (arranged by subject) Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide Alon Confino, A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide, Richard Breitman Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder (eds.), Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust, Shimon Redlich Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown, The Story of an Underground: The Resistance of the Jews in Kovno in the Second World War (trans. Jessica Setbon), David Silberklang Alvin H. Rosenfeld (ed.), Deciphering the New Antisemitism, Judy Baumel -Schwartz Milton Shain, A Perfect Storm: Antisemitism in South Africa 1930-1948, Patrick Furlong David Silberklang, Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District, Samuel Kassow Darius Stali?nas, Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars, Samuel Barnai Cultural Studies, Literature, and Religion Monique R. Balbuena, Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora, Judith K. Lang Hilgartner Emily Miller Budick, The Subject of Holocaust Fiction, Michael P. Kramer Natasha Gordinsky, Bishloshah nofim: yetziratah hamukdemet shel Leah Goldberg (In Three Landscapes: Leah Goldberg's Early Writings), Allison Schachter Yfaat Weiss, Nesi'ah venesi'ah medumah: Leah Goldberg begermanyah 1930-1933 (Journey and Imaginary Journey: Leah Goldberg in Germany, 1930-1933), Allison Schachter Judy Jaffe-Schagen, Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel, Osnat Zukerman Rechter Ken Koltun-Fromm, Imagining Jewish Authenticity: Vision and Text in American Jewish Thought, Maya Balakirsky Katz Nelly Las, Jewish Voices in Feminism: Transnational Perspectives (trans. Ruth Morris), Debbie Weissman Erica Lehrer and Michael Meng (eds.), Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland, Jackie Feldman Diana L. Linden, Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene, Samantha Baskind Tabea Alexa Linhard, Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory, Cynthia Gabbay Shaul Magid, Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity and the Construction of Modern Judaism, David Biale Jonatan Meir, Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896-1948) (trans. Avi Aronsky), Jonathan Garb Raanan Rein, F?tbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina (trans. Marsha Grenzeback), Moshe Zimmermann Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin (eds.), Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas, Moshe Zimmermann James Ross and Song Lihong (eds.), The Image of Jews in Contemporary China, Shalom Salomon Wald Henia Rottenberg and Dina Roginsky (eds.), Sara Levi-Tanai: ?ayim shel yetzirah (Sara Levi-Tanai: A Life of Creation), Yael Guilat Benjamin Schreier, The Impossible Jew: Identity and Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History, Noam Gil Carol Zemel, Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora, Barbara E. Mann Shelly Zer-Zion, Habima beBerlin: miysudo shel teatron tziyoni (Habima in Berlin: The Institutionalization of a Zionist Theater), Na'ama Sheffi History, Biography, and Social Science Michael Beizer (ed.), Toledot yehudei rusiyah, vol. 3, mimapekhot 1917 'ad nefilat brit hamo'atzot (History of the Jews in Russia: From the Revolutions of 1917 to the Fall of the Soviet Union), Theodore H. Friedgut Pierre Birnbaum, L?on Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist, David Weinberg Irith Cherniavsky, Be'or shineihem: 'al 'aliyatam shel yehudei polin lifnei hashoah (In the Last Moment: Jewish Immigration from Poland in the 1930s), Rona Yona Carmel U. Chiswick, Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition, Esther Isabelle Wilder Daniella Doron, Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation, Shannon L. Fogg Adam Ferziger, Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism, Samuel Heilman Sylvia Barack Fishman (ed.), Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, Harriet Hartman Theodore H. Friedgut, Stepmother Russia, Foster Mother America: Identity Transitions in the New Odessa Jewish Commune, Odessa, Oregon, New York, 1881-1891, together with Israel Mandelkern, Recollections of a Communist (ed. and annotated Theodore H. Friedgut), Jonathan Dekel-Chen Norman J.W. Goda, Barbara McDonald Stewart, Severin Hochberg, and Richard Breitman (eds.), To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1945-1947, Moshe Fox Zvi Jonathan Kaplan and Nadia Malinovitch (eds.), The Jews of Modern France: Images and Identities, Pierre Birnbaum Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France, Yuval Tal Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller (eds.), Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History, Luisa Levi D'Ancona Modena Eli Lederhendler and Uzi Rebhun (eds.), Research in Jewish Demography and Identity, Steven M. Cohen Rebeca Raijman, South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational Perspective, Sergio DellaPergola Dov Waxman, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel, Allan Arkush Zionism, Israel and the Middle East Orit Abuhav, In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel, Jack Kugelmass Gur Alroey, Zionism without Zion: The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization, Anita Shapira Hezi Amiur, Meshek beit haikar: hameshek hame'urav bama?shevet hatziyonit (Mixed Farm and Smallholding in Zionist Settlement Thought), Arnon Golan Naomi Brenner, Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact, Yaad Biran Yakir Englander and Avi Sagi, Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse (trans. Batya Stein), Sander L. Gilman Liora R. Halperin, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948, Yael Reshef Anat Helman, Israeli National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s, Michael Berkowitz Orit Rozin, A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State (trans. Haim Watzman), Moshe Naor