Jews and Urban Life (eBook)

Leonard J. Greenspoon (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
272 Seiten
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61249-903-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Editor’s Introduction

Contributors

Jews in Ancient Civic Life, by Gary Gilbert

Urbanizing Jews: Agriculture, Slave Codes, and the Byzantine Empire, by Anthony Meyer

Vienna’s Jewish Community, 1819–1826: Glimpses from Beethoven’s Conversation Books at the Dawn of a New Era, by Theodore Albrecht

A Tale of Two Cities: Jewish Creativity in Venice and Prague, by Ori Z. Soltes

The Cosmopolitan Jewish City: A Typology, by Alan Levenson

The Social Role of Small Jewish Cultural Centers:

The Case of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Menachem Keren-Kratz

Jewish Urbanization and the Midsize City: The Case of Kaunas, Lithuania, by Motti Zalkin

Kyiv as a Center of Soviet Jewish Culture in the 1920s–1930s, by Victoria Khiterer

The Yiddish Press in Cleveland, by Sean Martin

Jews Create Towns: An Examination of the Impact of Joseph Sondheimer on the Creation of Muskogee, Oklahoma, by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides

Rescuing that Modest Mansion: The Contributions of Urban Jews to American Historic Preservation, by Barry L. Stiefel

Comicus the Cosmopolite: Diasporic Cosmopolitics and the Promise of the City in Mel Brooks’s History of the World, Part I, by David J. Peterson and Joan Latchaw

City in the Garden, Garden in the City: Clarence Stein, Moshe Safdie, and the Design of Urban Reform, by Martin H. Shukert

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Jewish Civilization
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Jewish Civilization
• Verlagsort: West Lafayette
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Agriculture and farming • Alexandria • Amsterdam • Ghetto • Jerusalem • Jewish Studies • Jews • Kyiv • New York City • Prague • synagogues • Touro Synagogue • Urban History • Urban life • Venice • Vienna • Vilna • Yiddish press
• ISBN-10: 1-61249-903-1 / 1612499031
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61249-903-1 / 9781612499031