Full Description
Exploring and challenging the academic lifework of Professor Joachim Schlör, this book provides a window into current developments and debates in Jewish cultural studies. Reflecting on Schlör's biographical and from-below approach, this Festschrift considers how the ordinary and everyday remains essential for historical analysis of the human experience of modernity, forced migration, and the loss of a homeland, offering a vital synopsis of new research in urban and Jewish history in the process.
Jewish History and Culture beyond Borders brings together an international cast of renowned scholars from around the world to excavate Jewish experiences of modern Europe, urban topographies, and Jewish/non-Jewish relations through aspects that go beyond the traditional focus on either antisemitism or spheres of high culture and politics. Rural and transnational approaches are used, which together contextualise the field of European Jewish and urban history into larger geographical settings. Lastly, the book assembles theoretical reflections and introduces epistemological questions on dynamics in urban power structures, pluricultural everyday practices, and multi-layered experiences of (dis)location through bottom-up case studies.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction. 'The journey has not yet come to an end': The Schlörian Approach to Jewish History and Culture, Maja Hultman, Susanne Korbel, Claire Le Foll, Johanna Rolshoven
PART I: Migration
1. 'I felt myself transported to a World of which I had read, but one of which until then I had really never had knowledge': Fact-Finding Missions to Eastern Europe on the eve of World War 2, Jan Lánícek
2. '... and now we continue via Milan and Venice to Trieste. The ship is waiting there!'. Trieste as gateway to the maritime world and a space of transit for German-Jewish travellers, migrants, and refugees, 1920-1945, Björn Siegel
3. A Tapestry of Resilience: Navigating Swiss Migration Policy, Intellectual Bonds, and Interfaith Friendships in Turbulent Times, Stefanie Mahrer
4. Did a German Jewish Diaspora Exist? Transnational Experiences or Transnational Methods: the examples of Aufbau and Jüdische Allgemeine, Marie Behrendt
PART II: Beyond Urban Spaces
5. Make a Night of It: Nights in the Big City and feminist nocturnal histories of emotions, Cigdem Talu
6. Paper City. Jewish Textual Strategies in Nazi Berlin, Tobias Metzler
7. Figurations of female transversality: Germaine Krull, Isabelle Eberhardt and the anonymous street dweller, Johanna Rolshoven
8. Migrants in an English Third Space and Rural Heterotopia, Tony Kushner
PART III: Storages of culture
9. Migrating objects and their containers: Reflections on European Jewish refugees' arrival in the United States, Susanne Korbel
10. The Huppah as Cultural Baggage, Simon J. Bronner
11. Aspects of Aymmetry in Visual Stereotypes, Amos Morris-Reich
12. An Ethnography of the Briefcase: Tracing Post-Holocaust Experiences in a Business Archive, Maja Hultman and Benito Peix Geldart
Index
