ISBN:
9781612499024
,
9781612499017
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 253 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2024
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish civilization volume 33
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish civilization
DDC:
307.76089/924
Keywords:
City and town life
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Jewish neighborhoods History
;
Vie urbaine
;
Juifs - Vie intellectuelle
;
Quartiers juifs - Histoire
;
Stadtleben
;
Juden
;
Geschichte
;
Stadt
;
Kultur
;
Juden
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, the Harris Center for Judaic Studies,m and the Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, October 24-25. 2021
Abstract:
"Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present relevant examples from within the Jewish community itself, moving historically from the biblical period to the modern-day State of Israel. Taking a comparative approach while recognizing the particulars of individual instances, authors examine these phenomena from a wide variety of approaches, genres, and media. Interdisciplinary and accessibly written, the articles display a multitude of instances throughout history showing the range of Jewish life in urban settings"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Jews in ancient civic life / Gary Gilbert -- Urbanizing Jews : agriculture, slave codes, and the Byzantine empire / Anthony Meyer -- Vienna's Jewish community, 1819-1826 : glimpses from Beethoven's conversation books at the dawn of a new era / Theodore Albrecht -- A tale of two cities : Jewish creativity in Venice and Prague / Ori Z. Soltes -- The cosmopolitan Jewish city : a typology / Alan Levensen -- The social role of small Jewish cultural centers : the case of Cluj-Napoca, Romania / Menachem Keren-Kratz -- Jewish urbanization and the midsize city : the case of Kaunas, Lithuania / Motti Zalkin -- Kyiv as a center of Soviet Jewish culture in the 1920s-1930s / Victoria Khiterer -- The Yiddish press in Cleveland / Sean Martin -- Jews create towns : an examination of the impact of Joseph Sondheimer on the creation of Muskogee, Oklahoma / Mara W. Cohen Ioannides -- Rescuing that modest mansion : the contributions of urban Jews to American historic perservation / Barry L. Stiefel -- Comicus and the cosmopolite : diasporic cosmopolitics and the promise of the city in Mel Brook's History of the World, Part I / David J. Peterson and Joan Latchaw / City in the garden, garden in the city : Clarence Stein, Moshe Safdie and the design of urban reform / Martin H. Shukert.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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