Jews and journeys : travel and the performance of Jewish identity

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

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

Contributor:

Levinson, Joshua, editor
Bashkin, Orit, editor

ISBN:

9780812252958 and 0812252950

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Description:

vii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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:

"Travels of dislocation and return, discovery and conquest, hold a prominent place in formative Jewish and non-Jewish fictions of identity. It would almost seem that wherever a self or community is located it has always dreamed of being elsewhere and used travel writing as a cultural mechanism for exploring and shaping its own fictions of identity. What is it about travel writing that enables it to become one of the central cultural mechanisms for exploring and shaping themes of identity? How does this genre produce representations of an "other" and his world, against which and through which it explores and invents a particular sense of self? How do travel discourses work with and against other forms of cultural representation and give contour to territory and experience? Do the different types of travel construct different types of self, of others, and self-other interaction, and how do the various types of travel writing interact and influence one another? In other words, what cultural and ideological work is performed by these texts? These are some of the questions explored in this volume"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

PN56.T7 J49 2021

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