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Informationen zum Autor Richard I. Cohen is the academic director of the Israel Center of Research Excellence (I-Core) for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World. Among his many publications are The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust and Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe. He is an Emeritus Professor of Jewish History in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Klappentext Notions of place have always permeated Jewish life and consciousness. The Babylonian Talmud was pitted against the Jerusalem Talmud; the worlds of Sepharad and Ashkenaz were viewed as two pillars of the Jewish experience; the diaspora was conceived as a wholly different experience from that of Eretz Israel; and Jews from Eastern Europe and "German Jews" were often seen as mirror opposites, whereas Jews under Islam were often characterized pejoratively, especially because of their allegedly uncultured surroundings. Place, or makom, is a strategic opportunity to explore the tensions that characterize Jewish culture in modernity, between the sacred and the secular, the local and the global, the historical and the virtual, Jewish culture and others. The plasticity of the term includes particular geographic places and their cultural landscapes, theological allusions, and an array of other symbolic relations between locus, location, and the production of culture. The 30th volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry includes twelve essays that deal with various aspects of particular places, making each location a focal point for understanding Jewish life and culture. Scholars from the United States, Europe, and Israel have used their disciplinary skills to shed light on the vicissitudes of the 20th century in relation to place and Jewish culture. Their essays continue the ongoing discussion in this realm and provide further insights into the historiographical turn in Jewish studies. Zusammenfassung Bringing together contributions from a diverse group of scholars, Volume XXX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry presents a multifaceted view of the subtle and intricate relations between Jews and their relationship to place. The symposium covers Europe, the Middle East, and North America from the 18th century to the 21st. Inhaltsverzeichnis Symposium Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society Natan M. Meir, Home for the Homeless? The Hekdesh in Eastern Europe Yuval Tal, The Social Logic of Colonial Anti-Judaism: Revisiting the Anti-Jewish Crisis in French Algeria, 1889-1902 Scott Ury, The Urban Origins of Jewish Degeneration: The Modern City and the End of the Jews, 1900-1939 Saskia Coenen Snyder, An Urban Semiotics of War: Signs and Sounds in Nazi- occupied Amsterdam Andrea A. Sinn, Restoring and Reconstructing: Munich for Jews after the Second World War Vivian Liska, Jewish Displacement as Experience and Metaphor in 20th-Century European Thought Asher D. Biemann, Imagining a Homeland: The Election of Place and Time Mirjam Rajner, The Orient in Jewish Artistic Creativity: The Case of Maurycy Gottlieb Alec Mishory, Artists' Colonies in Israel Björn Siegel, Envisioning a Jewish Maritime Space: Arnold Bernstein and the Emergence of a Jewish Shipping Industry in the Interwar Years Roy Greenwald, Shifting Places: Representations of Sand in Pre-state Hebrew Poetry Vered Madar, Where is Paradise? Place and Time in the Memoirs of Women from Yemen Book Reviews (arranged by subject) Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide Alon Confino, A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide, Richard Breitman Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder (eds.), Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust, Shimon Redlich Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown...
