Jewish Culture in the Age of Globalisation

ISBN-13: 9780367739836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Cathy Gelbin; Sander Gilman

Opis

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the impact of current globalization processes on Jewish communities across the globe.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.

Spis treści

Section 1: Cultural Studies and Literary Approaches  1. Introduction: Jewish culture in the age of globalisation Sander L. Gilman  2. Towards the global shtetl: golem texts in the new millennium Cathy S. Gelbin  3. The Jew’s passage to India: Desai, Rushdie and globalised culture Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse  Section 2: Sociological and Historiographical Perspectives  4. The emergence of alternative Jewish tourism Caryn Aviv  5. Globalisation, anti-globalisation and the Jewish ‘question’ Susie Jacobs  6. Jewish law in the age of globalisation: conceptual impacts, multi-player interaction and halachic re-organisation of the Jewish ‘community’ Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer  7. Holocaust memory in the twenty-first century: between national reshaping and globalisation Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Marcel Stoetzler  8. Living local: some remarks on the creation of social groups of young Jews in present-day London Dani Kranz  Section 3: National Case Studies  9. Jewish cultures, identities and contingencies: reflections from the South African experience Milton Shain  10. Samba and Shoah: ethnic, religious and social diversity in Brazil Rosana Kohl Bines  11. The third way: German – Russian – European Jewish identity in a global Jewish world David Shneer  12. Mikvah in Beijing Zhou Xun  13. Aspects of Italy’s Jewish experience, as shaped by local and global factors Ephraim Nissan

O autorze

Cathy S. Gelbin is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She specializes in German-Jewish culture, Holocaust Studies, gender and film. She is co-editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book and currently working on her AHRC-funded monograph (co-authored with Sander Gilman) Cosmopolitanism and the Jews.

Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University, USA. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over eighty books. He is the author of the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred (1986) and was president of the Modern Language Association of America in 1995.