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Title Jews and journeys : travel and the performance of Jewish identity / edited by Joshua Levinson and Orit Bashkin
Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 352 pages) : illustrations
Series Jewish culture and contexts
Jewish culture and contexts.
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
Jewish Studies
Literature
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
Travel in literature.
Jewish literature -- Themes, motives
Jewish literature -- History and criticism
Travelers' writings -- History and criticism
Jews -- Identity.
Jews -- Travel
Jewish travelers.
Electronic books.
e-books.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
Jewish literature
Jewish travelers
Jews -- Identity
Jews -- Travel
Travel in literature
Travelers' writings
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Levinson, Joshua, editor.
Bashkin, Orit, 1974- editor.
ISBN 9780812297935
0812297938