Inhalt: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowl edgments -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Departures -- Chapter 2. Why Do We Need a Cultural History of Travel— and What Do the Jews Have to Do with It? -- Part II. Traveling with the Bible -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 3. The Travels and Travails of Abraham -- Chapter 4. Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Pilgrimage Narratives -- Chapter 5. Prophecy and Peregrination: Curious Encounters with Biblical Lands and Biblical Texts in the Eigh teenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Part III. Jewish Orientalism -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 6. Flying Camels and Other Remarkable Species: Natu ral Marvels in Medieval Hebrew Travel Accounts -- Chapter 7. A Jewish Critique of Eu ro pean Orientalism in the Eigh teenth Century: Marco Navarra’s Lettere orientali -- Chapter 8. No Place Like Home: The Uses of Travel in Early Maskilic Translations -- Part IV. Traveling With and Without Others: The Effects of the Familiar and Unfamiliar -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 9. Travel and Poverty: The Itinerant Pauper in Medieval Jewish Society in Islamic Countries -- Chapter 10. The Jewish Tradition of the Wandering Jew: The Poetics of Long Duration -- Chapter 11. Between the Wild and the Civilized: A Yiddish Travel Writer in Peru -- Part V. Repre sen ta tions of Travel: Mapping and Remapping -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 12. The New Zionist Road Map: From Old Gravesites to New Settlements -- Chapter 13. Heritage Utterances in Jewish Destinations: Travelers, Texts, and Museum Visitor Books -- Chapter 14. Traveling, Seeing, and Painting: Amsterdam and the Creation of Jewish Art in the Work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck -- Chapter 15. Jerusalem Journeys: Wandering Women in Con temporary Israeli Cinema -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their identity in the eyes of others.How does travel writing, as a genre, produce representations of the world of others, against which one's own self can be invented or explored? And what happens when Jewish authors in particular—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? How has travel figured in the formation of Jewish identity, and what cultural and ideological work is performed by texts that document or figure specifically Jewish travel? Featuring essays on topics that range from Abraham as a traveler in biblical narrative to the guest book entries at contemporary Israeli museum and memorial sites; from the marvels medieval travelers claim to have encountered to eighteenth-century Jewish critiques of Orientalism; from the Wandering Jew of legend to one mid-twentieth-century Yiddish writer's accounts of his travels through Peru, Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become one of the central mechanisms for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity |
