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Title Place in modern Jewish culture and society / edited by Richard I. Cohen
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 335 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in contemporary Jewry ; volume XXX
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 30.
Contents Symposium. Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society: home for the homeless? The hekdesh in eastern europe / Natan M. Meir -- The social logic of colonial anti-Judaism : revisiting the anti-Jewish crisis in French Algeria, 1889-1902 / Yuval Tal -- The urban origins of Jewish degeneration : the modern city and the "end of the Jews," 1900-1939 / Scott Ury -- An urban semiotics of war : signs and sounds in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam / Saskia Coenen Snyder -- Restoring and reconstructing : Munich for Jews after the Second World War / Andrea A. Sinn -- Jewish displacement as experience and metaphor in 20th-century European thought / Vivian Liska -- Imagining a homeland : the election of place and time / Asher D. Biemann -- The Orient in Jewish artistic creativity : the case of Maurycy Gottlieb / Mirjam Rajner -- Artists' colonies in Israel / Alec Mishory -- Envisioning a Jewish maritime space : Arnold Bernstein and the emergence of a Jewish shipping industry in the interwar years / Björn Siegel -- Shifting places : representations of sand in pre-state Hebrew poetry / Roy Greenwald -- Where is paradise? : Place and time in the memoirs of women from Yemen / Vered Madar --
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 Brumel-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 Staliūnas, Enemies for a day : antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in Lithuania under the tsars / Samuel Barnai --
Book Reviews (arranged by subject). 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 (translated by 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) (translated by Avi Aronsky) / Jonathan Garb -- Raanan Rein, Fútbol, Jews and the making of Argentina (translated by 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 : ḥayim 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 --
Book Reviews (arranged by subject). 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, Léon Blum : Prime Minister, socialist, zionist (translated by Arthur Goldhammer) / 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 (edited and annotated by 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 --
Book Reviews (arranged by subject). 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 bamaḥshevet 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 (translated by 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 (translated by Haim Watzman) / Moshe Naor
Summary Bringing together contributions from a diverse group of scholars, Volume XXX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry presents a multifaceted view of the subtle and intricate relations between Jews and their relationship to place. The symposium covers Europe, the Middle East, and North America from the 18th century to the 21st
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 14, 2019)
Subject Space -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Space perception -- History -- 18th century
Space perception -- History -- 19th century
Space perception -- History -- 20th century
Space perception -- History -- 21st century
Jews -- Social conditions.
Jews -- Identity.
Jews -- Civilization.
Jewish diaspora.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Space -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Space perception
Jews -- Social conditions
Jews -- Identity
Jews -- Civilization
Jewish diaspora
Jews -- Social life and customs
Judaism
Judaism and culture
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Richard I., editor.
Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.
ISBN 9780190912635
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9780190912659
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