Jews and Urban Life.

Jews and Urban Life.

"Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present relevant examples from...

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Main Author: Greenspoon, Leonard J.
Other Authors: Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Studies in Jewish Civilization Series.
Subjects:
City and town life.
Jews > Intellectual life.
Jewish neighborhoods > History.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Jews in ancient civic life / Gary Gilbert
  • Urbanizing Jews : agriculture, slave codes, and the Byzantine empire / Anthony Meyer
  • Vienna's Jewish community, 1819-1826 : glimpses from Beethoven's conversation books at the dawn of a new era / Theodore Albrecht
  • A tale of two cities : Jewish creativity in Venice and Prague / Ori Z. Soltes
  • The cosmopolitan Jewish city : a typology / Alan Levensen
  • The social role of small Jewish cultural centers : the case of Cluj-Napoca, Romania / Menachem Keren-Kratz
  • Jewish urbanization and the midsize city : the case of Kaunas, Lithuania / Motti Zalkin
  • Kyiv as a center of Soviet Jewish culture in the 1920s-1930s / Victoria Khiterer
  • The Yiddish press in Cleveland / Sean Martin
  • Jews create towns : an examination of the impact of Joseph Sondheimer on the creation of Muskogee, Oklahoma / Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
  • Rescuing that modest mansion : the contributions of urban Jews to American historic perservation / Barry L. Stiefel
  • Comicus and the cosmopolite : diasporic cosmopolitics and the promise of the city in Mel Brook's History of the World, Part I / David J. Peterson and Joan Latchaw / City in the garden, garden in the city : Clarence Stein, Moshe Safdie and the design of urban reform / Martin H. Shukert.

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