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.
Editors’ Introduction
Part 1 - Urban History, Emotions, and Gender Representations
1. The Huppah as Object and Symbol in Contemporary American Culture Simon J. Bronner (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
2. Urban Strolling: Women, on the way to a life of their own Johanna Rolshoven (University of Graz, Austria)
3. Emotions, Female Agency, and the Nocturnal City Cigdem Talu (McGill University, Canada)
Part 2 - Archiving Migration, Researching Exile
4. Western Perceptions of Eastern European Migration in the 1930s Jan Lanicek (The University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia)
5. "... and now we continue via Milan and Venice to Trieste. The ship is waiting there!" Trieste as a gateway to the maritime world and space of transit for German-Jewish refugees, 1933–1945 Björn Siegel (Institute for the History of the German Jews, Germany)
6. Spaces of exile: Artists and intellectuals in exile in Switzerland between 1933 and 1950 Stefanie Mahrer (University of Bern/University of Basel, Switzerland)
7. From Briefcases to Archives Maja Hultman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
8. A German-English Mix? The cultural legacy of German Jewish refugees in the US Susanne Korbel (University of Graz, Austria)
9. Place, Space and the ‘Everyday’: Battles over the presence of Jewish refugees in rural England Tony Kushner (University of Southampton, UK)
10. Experiences of Exile in Hanoch Levin’s Theatre Matthias Naumann (Neofelis Verlag, Germany)
Part 3 - Urban Histories
11. Paper City: Jewish textual strategies in Nazi Berlin Tobias Metzler (Thammasat University, Thailand)
12. Murder, Paedophilia, and other Crimes in Vienna around 1900 Klaus Hödl (University of Graz, Austria)
13. Jewish Intelligentsia: The emergence of a new social class Marcin Wodzinski (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
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