Jews and journeys : travel and the performance of Jewish identity /

What happens when Jewish authors--whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination--travel from one place to another? Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become a central mechanism for exploring the realities and fictions...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Levinson, Joshua (Editor ), Bashkin, Orit, 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Colección:Jewish culture and contexts.
Temas:
Travel writing > Jewish authors.
Travel in literature.
Jewish literature > Themes, motives.
Jewish literature > History and criticism.
Travelers' writings > History and criticism.
Jews > Identity.
Jews > Travel.
Jewish travelers.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Auteurs juifs.
Voyage dans la littérature.
Littérature juive > Thèmes, motifs.
Littérature juive > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de voyageurs > Histoire et critique.
Juifs > Identité.
Juifs > Voyages.
Voyageurs juifs.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
RELIGION > Judaism > History.
Jewish literature.
Travelers' writings.
Cultural Studies.
Jewish Studies.
Literature.
Religion.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1.
  • Departures / Joshua Levinson Chapter 2.
  • Why do we need a cultural history of travel-and what do the Jews have to do with it? / Joan-Pau Rubiés Chapter 3.
  • The travels and travails of Abraham / Joshua Levinson Chapter 4.
  • Wondrous nature : landscape and weather in early pilgrimage narratives / Ora Limor Chapter 5.
  • Prophecy and peregrination : curious encounters with Biblical lands and Biblical texts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Elliott Horowitz Chapter 6.
  • Flying camels and other remarkable species : natural marvels in medieval Hebrew travel accounts / Martin Jacobs Chapter 7.
  • A Jewish critique of European Orientalism in the eighteenth century : Marco Navarra's Lettere orientali / Asher Salah Chapter 8.
  • No place like home : the uses of travel in early Maskilic translations / Iris Idelson-Shein Chapter 9.
  • Travel and poverty : the itinerant pauper in medieval Jewish society in Islamic countries / Miriam Frenkel Chapter 10.
  • The Jewish tradition of the Wandering Jew : the poetics of long duration / Galit Hasan-Rokem Chapter 11.
  • Between the wild and the civilized : a Yiddish travel writer in Peru / Jack Kugelmass Chapter 12.
  • The new Zionist road map : from old gravesites to new settlements / Israel Bartal Chapter 13.
  • Heritage utterances in Jewish destinations : travelers, texts, and museum visitor books / Chaim Noy Chapter 14.
  • Traveling, seeing, and painting : Amsterdam and the creation of Jewish art in the work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck / Nils Roemer Chapter 15.
  • Jerusalem journeys : wandering women in contemporary Israeli cinema / Anat Zang.

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