@Book{1769568387,
title="Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity",
series="Jewish Culture and Contexts",
year="2021",
publisher="PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press",
address="Philadelphia",
keywords="Jewish literature; History and criticism; Themes, motives; Jewish travelers; Jews; Identity; Travel; Travel in literature; Travel writing; Jewish authors; Travelers' writings; RELIGION / Judaism / History; Cultural Studies; Jewish Studies; Literature; Religion",
abstract="Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowl edgments -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Departures -- Chapter 2. Why Do We Need a Cultural History of Travel--- and What Do the Jews Have to Do with It? -- Part II. Traveling with the Bible -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 3. The Travels and Travails of Abraham -- Chapter 4. Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Pilgrimage Narratives -- Chapter 5. Prophecy and Peregrination: Curious Encounters with Biblical Lands and Biblical Texts in the Eigh teenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Part III. Jewish Orientalism -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 6. Flying Camels and Other Remarkable Species: Natu ral Marvels in Medieval Hebrew Travel Accounts -- Chapter 7. A Jewish Critique of Eu ro pean Orientalism in the Eigh teenth Century: Marco Navarra's Lettere orientali -- Chapter 8. No Place Like Home: The Uses of Travel in Early Maskilic Translations -- Part IV. Traveling With and Without Others: The Effects of the Familiar and Unfamiliar -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 9. Travel and Poverty: The Itinerant Pauper in Medieval Jewish Society in Islamic Countries -- Chapter 10. The Jewish Tradition of the Wandering Jew: The Poetics of Long Duration -- Chapter 11. Between the Wild and the Civilized: A Yiddish Travel Writer in Peru -- Part V. Repre sen ta tions of Travel: Mapping and Remapping -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chapter 12. The New Zionist Road Map: From Old Gravesites to New Settlements -- Chapter 13. Heritage Utterances in Jewish Destinations: Travelers, Texts, and Museum Visitor Books -- Chapter 14. Traveling, Seeing, and Painting: Amsterdam and the Creation of Jewish Art in the Work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck -- Chapter 15. Jerusalem Journeys: Wandering Women in Con temporary Israeli Cinema -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index",
note="edited by Joshua Levinson, Orit Bashkin",
note="Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.",
note="In English",
isbn="9780812297935",
doi="10.9783/9780812297935",
url="https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812297935",
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url="https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297935",
language="English"
}