Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity PDF
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Jews and Journeys JEWISH CULTURE AND CONTEXTS Published in association with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania Series Editors: Shaul Magid, Francesca Trivellato, Steven Weitzman A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher. JEWS AND JOURNEYS Travel and the Per for mance of Jewish Identity Edited by Joshua Levinson and Orit Bashkin university of pennsylvania press philadelphia Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from the Herbert D. Katz Publications Fund of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Copyright © 2021 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www . upenn . edu / pennpress Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0-8122-5295-8 Contents Acknowl edgments ix Part I. Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Departures 3 Joshua Levinson Chapter 2. Why Do We Need a Cultural History of Travel— and What Do the Jews Have to Do with It? 10 Joan- Pau Rubiés Part II. Traveling with the Bible Introduction by Joshua Levinson 23 Chapter 3. Te Travels and Travails of Abraham 29 Joshua Levinson Chapter 4. Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Pilgrimage Narratives 46 Ora Limor Chapter 5. Prophecy and Peregrination: Curious Encounters with Biblical Lands and Biblical Texts in the Eigh teenth and Nineteenth Centuries 63 Elliott Horo witz Part III. Jewish Orientalism Introduction by Orit Bashkin 93 Chapter 6. Flying Camels and Other Remarkable Species: Natu ral Marvels in Medieval Hebrew Travel Accounts 100 Martin Jacobs vi Contents Chapter 7. A Jewish Critique of Eu ro pean Orientalism in the Eigh teenth C entury: Marco Navarra’s Lettere orientali 116 Asher Salah Chapter 8. No Place Like Home: Te Uses of Travel in Early Maskilic Translations 129 Iris Idelson- Shein Part IV. Traveling With and Without O thers: Te Efects of the Familiar and Unfamiliar Introduction by Orit Bashkin 147 Chapter 9. Travel and Poverty: Te Itinerant Pauper in Medieval Jewish Society in Islamic Countries 154 Miriam Frenkel Chapter 10. Te Jewish Tradition of the Wandering Jew: Te Poetics of Long Duration 171 Galit Hasan- Rokem Chapter 11. Between the Wild and the Civilized: A Yiddish Travel Writer in Peru 183 Jack Kugelmass Part V. Repre sen ta tions of Travel: Mapping and Remapping Introduction by Joshua Levinson 211 Chapter 12. Te New Zionist Road Map: From Old Gravesites to New Settlements 217 Israel Bartal Chapter 13. Heritage Utterances in Jewish Destinations: Travelers, Texts, and Museum Visitor Books 230 Chaim Noy Chapter 14. Traveling, Seeing, and Painting: Amsterdam and the Creation of Jewish Art in the Work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck 256 Nils Roemer Contents vii Chapter 15. Jerusalem Journeys: Wandering W omen in Con temporary Israeli Cinema 269 Anat Zanger Notes 283 Contributors 339 Index 343 Acknowl edgments Tis book, like its topic, was a long, yet fascinating, journey. Te journey began with a research group at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania initiated by Ora Limor and Joshua Levinson. We thank the center’s director, the tireless David Ruderman, for his support of the proj ect, his leadership, and his friendship. We also express our profound thanks to the Center’s associate director, Natalie B. Dohrmann, its dedicated staf, in par tic ul ar, Carrie Love and Esther Lassman, its curator of Judaica collections, Arthur Kiron, and its current director, Steven Weitzman. Tis book would not have reached completion without the dedication and guidance of Jerome E. Singerman from the University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as the insightful commentary provided by two of its readers. We are grateful to all the contribu- tors in this collection for their cooperation and patience. We dedicate this book to the memory of our friend and colleague Elliott Horo witz, who started the journey with us but has lef us too soon, before the proj ect came to fruition. A scholar of Jewish cultural and social history and early modern Judaism, his remarkable erudition (and sense of humor) was an inestimable contribution to how we think about cultural complexity and transformation, movement, vio lence, and image. We miss him a g reat deal.
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