Place and displacement in Jewish history and memory : zakor v'makor / editors, David Cesarani, Tony Kushner and Milton Shain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cesarani, David.

Kushner, Tony (Antony Robin Jeremy)

Shain, Milton

Class of 1939 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Identity--Congresses.

Jews.

Jews--Identity.

Jewish diaspora--Congresses.

Jewish diaspora.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2009.

Summary:

The twelve essays in this fascinating collection range broadly over time, covering the period from the early modern era to the early twenty-first century. Their geographical scope is also impressive, including Europe, North and South America, Australia, North and South Africa and the Far East: the 'old' and the 'new' worlds. What unites these essays - whether dealing with centre or periphery - is the interrogation of place and displacement in the Jewish experience and in the construction of Jewish identities. These studies are given further complexity and unity of purpose by studying the relationship of history and memory in negotiating Jewish identities with regard to time and place. What emerges is a rich volume bringing together established academics and younger scholars. All the essays have a strong historical context but they bring in insights informed by the fields of literary, cultural, geographical, anthropological, racial and ethnic and sociological studies. The dynamics between migration and settlement and the processes of racialisation run across this volume as a whole, adding to its multi-layered, challenging and ultimately exciting nature.

Contents:

Introduction / David Cesarani, Milton Shain, Tony Kushner 1

Part I Place, Displacement and Belonging

Foreigners in their Own City: Italian Fascism and the Dispersal of Trieste's Port Jews / Maura E. Hametz 15

'Lost Worlds': Reflections on Home and Belonging in Jewish Holocaust Survivor Testimonies / Michele Langfield 29

Constructing a Usable Past: History, Memory and South African Jewry in an Age of Anxiety / Richard Mendelsohn, Milton Shain 43

Comparing the Jewish and Irish Communities in Twentieth Century Scotland / William Kenefick 53

Part II Race, Place and Periphery

On Burial, Boundaries and the Creolisation of the Surinamese Jewish Community / Wieke Vink 71

Memory, Place and Displacement in the Formation of Jewish Identity in Rangoon and Surabaya / Jonathan Goldstein 88

Jews of Algiers / Moshe Terdiman 99

Jewish Identity in Two Remote Areas of the Cape Province: A Double Case Study / John Simon 114

Part III Place, Migration and Memory Works

Migration, Location and Memory: Jewish History through a Comparative Lens / Nancy Foner 131

Putting London Jewish Intellectuals in their Place / David Cesarani 141

Memory at the Margins, Matter out of Place: Hidden Narratives of Jewish Settlement and Movement in Britain / Tony Kushner 154

'A Slice of Eastern Europe in Johannesburg': Yiddish Theatre in Doornfontein, 1929-49 / Veronica Belling 169.

Notes:

"The 12 essays in this collection originated in an international conference on 'Place and displacement in Jewish history and memory: zakor v'makor, ' held at the University of Cape Town in January 2005"--Pref.

" ... first appeared in a special issue ofJewish culture and history, vol. 9, no. 2-3 (ISSN 1462-169X)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.

ISBN:

9780853039501

085303950X

0853039402

9780853039402

OCLC:

261960258