Jewish and non-Jewish spaces in the urban context / Alina Gromova, Felix Heinert, Sebastian Voigt (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gromova, Alina, editor.

Heinert, Felix, editor.

Voigt, Sebastian, editor.

Series:

Jüdische Kulturgeschichte in der Moderne ; volume 4.

Jüdische Kulturgeschichte in der Moderne (Jewish cultural history in the modern era) ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Civilization.

Jews.

Cities and towns--Religious aspects.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

302 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Neofelis Verlag, [2015].

Summary:

The unifying thread of the interdisciplinary volume Jewish and Non-Jemsb Spaces in the Urban Context is the f fact that Jewish spaces are almost always generated in relation to non-Jewish spaces; they determine and influence each other. This general phenomenon will be scrutinized and put to the test again and again in a varied collection of articles by international experienced researchers as well as junior scholars using various urban contexts and discourses as data. From the viewpoints of different temporal and regional research traditions and disciplines the contributors deal with the question of how Jewish and non-Jewish spaces are imagined, constructed, negotiated and intertwined. All examples and case studies together create a mosaic of possibilities for the construction of Jewish and non-Jewish spaces in different settings. The list of examined topics ranges from synagogues to ghettos, from urban neighborhoods to cafes and festivals, from art to literature. This diversity makes the volume a challenging effort of giving an overview of the current academic discussion in Europe and beyond. Although the majority of the contributions are focused on Central and Eastern Europe, a more general tendency becomes apparent in all articles: the negotiation of urban spaces seems to be a complex and ambivalent process in which a large number of participants are involved. In this regard, the volume would also like to contribute to trans-disciplinary urban studies and critical research on spatial relations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Jews of This World - Historicizing Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Contest. Blueprint for a Historiographical Thesis / Felix Heinert Heinert, Felix 27

Historicizing Jewish Space, (De-)Constructing "the Ghetto" - (Early) Modern Perspectives on the Spacialization of Jewish Modernity

Making Sense of "the Ghetto". Conceptualizing a Jewish Space from Early Modern Times to the Present / Jürgen Heyde Heyde, Jürgen 37

Jewish Shtetl or Christian Town? The Jews in Small Towns in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th and 18th Centuries / Maria Ciesla Ciesla, Maria 63

The Nature of Jewish Spaces in Ottoman Algiers / Nora Fafi Fafi, Nora 83

A Jewish Space in an Extreme Context? German Ghettoes for Jews in Eastern Europe during World War II / Frank Golczewski Golczewski, Frank 99

Borderlands of Identity and Interaction

Transnational and Transcultural Spaces in the Diaspora. The Case of Berlin 1900-1933 / Anne-Chrisiin Saβ Saβ, Anne-Chrisiin 119

A Border from a Jewish Perspective. Developments on the Prussian Periphery / Ruth Leiserowitz Leiserowitz, Ruth 135

German-Jewish Borderlands. On 'Non-Jewish Jewish Spaces' in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Mirjam Zadoff Zadoff, Mirjam 151

Becoming Metropolitan, (Re-)Imagining Community

Space for Reflection. Synagogue Building in Nineteenth-Century Urban Landscapes / Saskia Coenen Snyder Snyder, Saskia Coenen 165

The Emergence of the First European Jewish Metropolis in Warsaw, 1850-1880 / François Guesnet Guesnet, François 183

Jewish Quarters as Urban Tableaux / Eszter Gantner Gantner, Eszter 197

Imperial, Ethnic and Local (Non-)Jewish Space in the Cities of Imperial Russia / Alexis Hofmeister Hofmeister, Alexis 213

Mapping (Non-)Jewish Spaces of Memory, Narration and Representation

Gypsy Spaces and Jewish Spaces as Hyper-Liminal Spaces of Inversion. Longing for the Shtetl and the Gypsy Camp / Monica Ruuml;thers Ruuml;thers, Monica 229

In the Cellars and Attics of Memory. Mapping Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in Contemporary Poland / Magdalerid Waligórska Waligórska, Magdalerid 243

Between Poetics and Politics. The Eruv and the Wall in Recent Contemporary Artistic Imagination / Diana I. Popescu Popescu, Diana I. 259

Locating Jewish Identities in Naomi Alderman's Disobedience / Martin Kindermann Kindermann, Martin 273

Epilogue

'Jewish Quarter' and 'Kosher Light'. On the 'Migrantisation of Jewish Urban Space / Wolfgang Kaschuba Kaschuba, Wolfgang 293.

ISBN:

9783943414448

3943414442

OCLC:

923731515