Jewish History and Culture Beyond Borders
Essays in Honour of Professor Joachim Schlör
edited by Maja Hultman, Susanne Korbel, Claire Le Foll, and Johanna Rolshoven
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. Biographical, material, rural and transnational approaches are used, which together assemble theoretical reflections and introduce epistemological questions on dynamics in urban power structures, pluricultural everyday practices, and multi-layered experiences of (dis)location through bottom-up case studies.
The book was co-edited by Susanne Korbel, visiting research fellow at the CEU Jewish Studies Program. Michael Miller, the Head of the CEU jewish Studies Program wrote in his review: Like Benjamin's flâneur, this collection of essays saunters thoughtfully and attentively through the cityscapes, waterscapes and dreamscapes of Europe, America and the Middle East, observing Jews and non-Jews in their everyday lives and probing the ways they relate to space and place, home and exile, stasis and change, Zion and dispersion, and above all, how they relate to those states of liminality and in-betweenness that characterized the Jewish experience in the twentieth century.
Find the book here: Jewish History and Culture Beyond Borders: Essays in Honour of Professor Joachim Schlör: Maja Hultman: Bloomsbury Academic - Bloomsbury