Description |
1 online resource (vii, 352 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Jewish culture and contexts |
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Jewish culture and contexts.
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Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 of individual and collective identity |
Analysis |
Cultural Studies |
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Jewish Studies |
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Literature |
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Religion |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed July 6, 2022) |
Subject |
Travel writing -- Jewish authors
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Travel in literature.
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Jewish literature -- Themes, motives
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Jewish literature -- History and criticism
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Travelers' writings -- History and criticism
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Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- Travel
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Jewish travelers.
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
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Jewish literature
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Jewish travelers
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Jews -- Identity
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Jews -- Travel
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Travel in literature
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Travelers' writings
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Levinson, Joshua, editor.
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Bashkin, Orit, 1974- editor.
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ISBN |
9780812297935 |
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0812297938 |
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