Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2021

Jews and Journeys

Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity

Edited by: Joshua Levinson and Orit Bashkin

In the series Jewish Culture and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297935

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About this book

What happens when Jewish authors—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become a central mechanism for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity.

Author / Editor information

Joshua Levinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Orit Bashkin is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago.

Reviews

"How do Jewish travel narratives function as a vehicle of cultural self-perception? This question serves as a guiding principle for all the contributions in this volume, which presents a longue durée of Jewish travel writing from biblical times to the present. Jews and Journeys is a timely and relevant volume, speaking to a trend in Jewish historiography that looks increasingly beyond the local and towards transnational and cross-cultural connections."—Matthias Lehmann, University of California, Irvine

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowl edgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Departures Joshua Levinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2. Why Do We Need a Cultural History of Travel— and What Do the Jews Have to Do with It? Joan Rubiés Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Part II. Traveling with the Bible
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Contributors Joshua Levinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 3. The Travels and Travails of Abraham Joshua Levinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 4. Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Pilgrimage Narratives Ora Limor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Chapter 5. Prophecy and Peregrination: Curious Encounters with Biblical Lands and Biblical Texts in the Eigh teenth and Nineteenth Centuries Elliott witz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Part III. Jewish Orientalism
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Contributors Orit Bashkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6. Flying Camels and Other Remarkable Species: Natu ral Marvels in Medieval Hebrew Travel Accounts Martin Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Chapter 7. A Jewish Critique of Eu ro pean Orientalism in the Eigh teenth Century: Marco Navarra’s Lettere orientali Asher Salah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter 8. No Place Like Home: The Uses of Travel in Early Maskilic Translations Iris Shein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Part IV. Traveling With and Without Others: The Effects of the Familiar and Unfamiliar
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Contributors Orit Bashkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 9. Travel and Poverty: The Itinerant Pauper in Medieval Jewish Society in Islamic Countries Miriam Frenkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 10. The Jewish Tradition of the Wandering Jew: The Poetics of Long Duration Galit Rokem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Chapter 11. Between the Wild and the Civilized: A Yiddish Travel Writer in Peru Jack Kugelmass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Part V. Repre sen ta tions of Travel: Mapping and Remapping
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Contributors Joshua Levinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Chapter 12. The New Zionist Road Map: From Old Gravesites to New Settlements Israel Bartal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Chapter 13. Heritage Utterances in Jewish Destinations: Travelers, Texts, and Museum Visitor Books Chaim Noy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Chapter 14. Traveling, Seeing, and Painting: Amsterdam and the Creation of Jewish Art in the Work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck Nils Roemer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Chapter 15. Jerusalem Journeys: Wandering Women in Con temporary Israeli Cinema Anat Zanger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 408
Illustrations
- Other: 9 halftones
Keywords: Religion; Literature; Jewish Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: August 6, 2021
ISBN: 9780812297935