Jews and urban life / editor : Leonard J. Greenspoon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay), editor.

Series:

Studies in Jewish civilization ; 1070-8510 33.

Studies in Jewish civilization, 1070-8510 ; volume 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Jewish neighborhoods--History.

Jewish neighborhoods.

Physical Description:

xviii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Jews & urban life

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

"The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization"

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781612499017

1612499015

9781612499024

1612499023

OCLC:

1373607821