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Jewish Topographies
How have Jews experienced their environments and how have they engaged with specific places? How do Jewish spaces emerge, how are they contested, performed and used? With these questions in mind, this anthology focuses on the production of Jewish space and “lived Jewish spaces” and sheds light on their diversity, inter-connectedness and multi-dimensionality. By exploring historical and contemporary case studies from around the world, the essays collected here shift the temporal focus generally applied to Jewish civilization to a spatially oriented perspective. The reader encounters sites such as the gardens cultivated in the Ghettos during World War II, the Israeli development town of Ne...
The Middle East
The Middle East is an area of great importance globally, yet misperceptions abound. Events have made it a region of special interest to the West and so the search for understanding gains momentum. This publication is intended to clarify the region’s complex history and issues. In developing this project, the contributors’ set out to explore seven significant themes that are usually not found in other sources. While many books focus on political history and conflicts, this two-volume work deals specifically with culture, religion, women, economics, governance, and media, as well as the role that the region’s modern history has played in shaping its society and worldview.
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9
The Posen Library’s groundbreaking anthology series—called “a feast of Jewish culture, in ten volumes” by the Chronicle of Higher Education—explores in Volume 9 global Jewish responses to the years 1939 to 1973, a time of unprecedented destruction, dislocation, agency, and creativity “An extensive look at Jewish civilization and culture from the eve of World War II to the Yom Kippur War . . . It’s a weighty collection, to be sure, but one that’s consistently engaging . . . An edifying and diverse survey of 20th-century Jewish life.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Readers seeking primary texts, documents, images, and artifacts constituting Jewish culture and civilizatio...
The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity
While early Zionists envisioned the Jewish state as an outpost of Europe in the Middle East, modern Israel is—geographically speaking—located in Asia and incorporates elements from both “Orient and Occident.” This book sheds light on how the Mediterranean region, its history, traditions, climate, and attitudes have shaped Israeli lived experience and consciousness. It offers new perspectives on the evolving phenomenon of Yam Tikhoniut (hebr. Mediterraneanism), which centers around the longing to find a "natural" place in order that Israel be accommodated in the region, both culturally and politically. This book explores Mediterraneanism as reflected in popular music, literature, architecture, and daily life and analyzes the ways in which the notion comprises cultural identity, societal concepts, and political realities.
Generation im Übergang
Was bedeutet Heimat für die deutschsprachigen jüdischen Flüchtlinge, die durch das nationalsozialistische Terrorregime aus ihrer zentraleuropäischen Heimat vertrieben wurden und sich in Palästina angesiedelt haben? Dieser Frage geht diese Studie nach, der 77 qualitative Interviews zu Grunde liegen, in denen persönliche Lebensgeschichten sowie der Prozess der Beheimatung in Palästina/Israel thematisiert werden. Zionistische Visionen und der Traum von einer besseren Gesellschaft sind dabei zentral. Es wird deutlich, dass Brüche in den Biografien und Entwurzelung eine Lokalisierung von Heimat erschweren, vielmehr ist die parallele Existenz mehrerer Heimaten in verschiedenen Kulturräumen für die meisten der befragten Personen selbstverständlich.
Der Judenweg
Barbara Rösch bringt erstmals das bislang von der Forschung übersehene Toponym Judenweg und seine sinnverwandten Formen, nämlich die Judenpfade, -gassen, -steige, aber auch die Judenbäume, -brunnen und -steine zum »Sprechen«. Die erstmalige Erforschung jüdischer Alltagsgeschichte aus dem Blickwinkel der Flurnamenforschung bringt neue Erkenntnisse über die Kulturgeschichte des ländlichen, vor allem des bayerisch-fränkischen Judentums vom 17. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert ans Licht. Dies betrifft insbesondere Details jüdischen Alltagslebens, Lebensbedingungen und Mobilität, aber auch die Hindernisse, die den jüdischen Landgemeinden beispielsweise auf ihrem Weg zu Märkten und Kunden aber auch zu den Friedhöfen durch die staatlichen Obrigkeiten bereitet worden sind, etwa Ortsbetretungsverbote, erzwungene Ortsumgehungen und spezifische Zollbestimmungen für Juden (Leibzoll, Brautzoll, Totenzoll). Viele Judenwege und sinnverwandte Toponyme erwiesen sich als »Orte des Todes« – dort fanden Pogrome statt, wurden Juden verfolgt, ausgeraubt, sogar ermordet. Die Erinnerung daran besteht vielfach nur durch die mündliche Tradierung dieser Namen.
Losing Site
As Ruskin suggests in his Seven Lamps of Architecture: "We may live without [architecture], and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her." We remember best when we experience an event in a place. But what happens when we leave that place, or that place no longer exists? This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It explores how architecture exists as a material object and how it registers as a place that we come to remember beyond the physical site itself. It questions what architecture is in the broadest sense, assuming that it is not simply buildings. Rather, architecture is considered to be the mappi...
Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders
Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case studies from North America, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the book analyzes how contested national, ethnic and cultural sentiments clash in planning and experiencing urban spaces. Going beyond the claim that such situations exist in many parts of the world because communities construct their 'past memories' within their current daily life and future aspirations, the book explores how the very acts of planning and urban design are rooted in the existing structures of hegemonic power. With contributors from the fields of architecture, geography, planning, anthropology and sociology, urban studies and cultural studies, the book provides a rich, interdisciplinary view into the conflicts over memory and belonging which are spatially expressed and mediated through the official planning apparatus.
Valuing Historic Environments
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation of historic environments. Starting from the premise that heritage values are culturally and historically constructed, the book examines the effects of pluralist frameworks of value on how preservation is conceived. It questions the social and economic consequences of constructions of value and how to balance a responsive, democratic conception of heritage with the pressure to deliver on social and economic objectives. It also describes the practicalities of managing the uncertainty and fluidity of the widely varying conceptions of heritage.
Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City
The widespread concept of the 'postmodern city' is frequently linked to the decline of traditional manufacturing industries and a corresponding wane of white working-class culture. In place of these appear flexible working practices, a diversified workforce, and a greater emphasis on consumption, leisure, and tourism. Illustrated by an interdisciplinary study of Leeds, a typical postmodern city, this volume examines how such cities have reinvented themselves – commercially, politically and spatially – over the past two decades. The work addresses issues like cultural policy, city-centre development, sport, leisure and identity, and explores different urban processes in relation to changing configuration of class, gender and ethnicity in the postmodern city.
