New perspectives on Jewish cultural history : boundaries, experiences, and sensemaking /

This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities or ruptures of dominant grand historic...

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Other Authors: Zuckerman, Maja Gildin (Editor), Feldt, Jakob (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2020]
Series:Studies for the international society for cultural history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Experience, space, and time in Jewish cultural history : a pragmatist perspective / Jakob Egholm Feldt and Maja Gildin Zuckerman
  • En route to Palestine : Jewish mobility and Zionist emergence / Maja Gildin Zuckerman
  • The death of the renegade : on Jewish experience in the 20th century / Mirjam Zadoff
  • Tropical territorialism : displaced persons, colonialism, and the Freeland League in Suriname (1946-1948) / Laura Almagor
  • Autoethnographic cosmopolitanism : Jewish travel writers among their coreligionists / Michael Harbsmeier
  • The presence of past struggles : the Jews and the boundaries of enlightenment / Jakob Egholm Feldt
  • "It is Hellas and Israel to which Europe owes its culture" : Georg Brandes and his Athens vs. Jerusalem re-interpretations / Søren Blak Hjortshøj
  • From Jewish separateness to Jewish and non-Jewish entanglement : a shift to a "new Jewish history"? / Klaus Hödl
  • To walk in the footsteps of your ancestors : roots tourism in Yiddishland / Karin Cohr Lützen.