New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History: Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking

ISBN-13: 9781032240558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

Maja Gildin Zuckerman; Jakob Egholm Feldt

Opis

The original studies presented in this book show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and what is non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.

Spis treści

1. Experience, Space, and Time in Jewish Cultural History: A Pragmatist Perspective  2. En Route to Palestine: Jewish Mobility and Zionist Emergence  3. The Death of the Renegade: On Jewish Experience in the 20th Century  4. Tropical Territorialism: Displaced Persons, Colonialism, and the Freeland League in Suriname (1946-1948)  5. Autoethnographic Cosmopolitanism: Jewish Travel Writers Among Their Coreligionists  6. The Presence of Past Struggles: The Jews and the Boundaries of Enlightenment  7. "It Is Hellas and Israel to Which Europe Owes Its Culture:" Georg Brandes and His Athens vs. Jerusalem Re-interpretations  8. From Jewish Separateness to Jewish and Non-Jewish Entanglement: A Shift to a "New Jewish History"?  9. To Walk in the Footsteps of Your Ancestors: Roots Tourism in Yiddishland

O autorze

Maja Gildin Zuckerman is the Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow at Education and Jewish Studies at Stanford University.

Jakob Egholm Feldt is Professor of Global History at Roskilde University, Denmark.