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Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History

New German Historical Perspectives

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 1st Jun 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 21mm
Weight: 625g
ISBN-10: 1785335537
ISBN-13: 9781785335532
Barcode No: 9781785335532
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What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of "the spatial," these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional, political, institutional, and imaginative realms, as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together, they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema, always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity.

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"The present volume bears the fruits of more than two decades of scholarship on Jewish space, and the long gestation period of this anthology is well worth the wait... Overall, this is a welcome addition to a flourishing field, indeed, the "spatial turn" in Jewish studies diagnosed in the late 1990s, is set to continue to enhance the work of historians, particularly those of us working in borderlands and who engage with the study of boundaries between population groups...thorough editorial work and a superbly crafted introduction." * Modern Jewish Studies



"In their various ways, the contributions of the volume... offer rich food for thought... the volume advances the discussion of space and spatiality in German-Jewish history considerably, and in the best instances individual contributions successfully break down the barriers between German and non-German historiography, just as the editors hoped they would." * German History



"The range of approaches and the sheer breadth of spaces and texts treated here-synagogues and cemeteries, German landscapes, Freud and his reception, philanthropy, urban ghettos, photography, and museums-provide a compelling and rich window into Jewish spaces in their historical context." * Barbara Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary of America



"This collection makes a convincing case for the application of 'space' as an analytic category for the study of minorities in European society, affording new insights into the complexities and fluidities of intertwined and 'entangled' histories." * Jonathan Skolnik, University of Massachusetts, Amherst