%0 Book
%T Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity
%S Jewish Culture and Contexts
%D 2021
%I PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press
%C Philadelphia
%@ 9780812297935
%G English
%F 1769568387
%O edited by Joshua Levinson, Orit Bashkin
%O Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
%O In English
%X 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
%L 17.87
%K Jewish literature
%K History and criticism
%K Themes, motives
%K Jewish travelers
%K Jews
%K Identity
%K Travel
%K Travel in literature
%K Travel writing
%K Jewish authors
%K Travelers' writings
%K RELIGION / Judaism / History
%K Cultural Studies
%K Jewish Studies
%K Literature
%K Religion
%9 Text
%9 Aufsatzsammlung
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