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New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History: Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking book cover

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New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking

Edited By Maja Gildin Zuckerman, Jakob Egholm Feldt Copyright 2020
236 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural history, this book unfolds situations and events, where... Read more

1. Experience, Space, and Time in Jewish Cultural History: A Pragmatist Perspective

Jakob Egholm Feldt and Maja Gildin Zuckerman

2. En Route to Palestine: Jewish Mobility and Zionist Emergence

Maja Gildin Zuckerman

3. The Death of the Renegade: On Jewish Experience in the 20th Century

Mirjam Zadoff

4. Tropical Territorialism: Displaced Persons, Colonialism, and the Freeland League in Suriname (1946-1948)

Laura Almagor

5. Autoethnographic Cosmopolitanism: Jewish Travel Writers Among Their Coreligionists

Michael Harbsmeier

6. The Presence of Past Struggles: The Jews and the Boundaries of Enlightenment

Jakob Egholm Feldt

7. "It Is Hellas and Israel to Which Europe Owes Its Culture:" Georg Brandes and His Athens vs. Jerusalem Re-interpretations

Søren Blak Hjortshøj

8. From Jewish Separateness to Jewish and Non-Jewish Entanglement: A Shift to a "New Jewish History"?

Klaus Hödl

9. To Walk in the Footsteps of Your Ancestors: Roots Tourism in Yiddishland

Karin Cohr Lützen

Biography

Maja Gildin Zuckerman is the Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow at Education and Jewish Studies at Stanford University.

Jakob Egholm Feldt is Professor of Global History at Roskilde University, Denmark.

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