Jewish Culture and History

contents of the current issue - 11 1-2

• PART I: THE NATURE OF JEWISH JOURNEYS

  • Nicholas Evans, Keeping Kosher: Policies deployed by British and German shipping companies to develop the transatlantic Jewish passenger business

  PART II: BODY, IDENTITY AND GENDER

  • Greg Walker, Spiritual Journeymen? The Jews in the Croxton Play of the Sacrement
  • Henrietta Mondry, Fantasy Places and Fantasy Bodies
  • Veronica Belling, When Rivkah left home: Women's Journeys from Eastern Europe to South Africa
  • Albert Lichtblau, Galician Journeys
  • Hilda Nissimi, Layers of Identity in a Jewish Community: from Crypto Faith in Mashhad to 'Mahhadilan', USA
  • Jocelyn Hellig, German Jewish Immigration to Johannesburg

  PART III: INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL TRANSMISSION

  • Sarah Pearce, Journeys in ancient Judaism: the migrations of the ancestors
  • James Jordan, 'What we have gained is infinitely more than that small loss'. Rudolph Cartier at the BBC
  • Kristy Warren, It's bigger than hip hop
  • Fiona Frank, Hannah Frank's Glasgow Jewish Journey: from the Gorbals to the South Side
  • Noam Zadoff, Travelling to the Past, Creating a New Future: Gershom Scholem's Journey to Germany in 1946

  PART IV: JOURNEYS AND FAMILIES

  • Jessica Roitman, Sephardic Merchant Journeys: Travel, Place and Conceptions of Identity
  • Ruth Leiserowitz, To Go Through Prussia? Litvak Migratory Decisions in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and their consequences
  • Tony Kushner, Cowards or Heroes? Jewish Journeys, Jewish Families and the Titanic
  • Jonathan Goldstein, 'Not Just Another Country': The Olmert Family Sojourn through China as a case study of the role of travel in Jewish identity formation
  • Gemma Romain, 'Who do you think you are?' Journeys and Jewish identity in the narrative of David Baddiel

  abstracts from the current issue

contents of the previous issue - 10.2/3

• Benjamin Ravid, All Ghettos were Jewish Quarters but not all Jewish Quarters were Ghettos
• Fritz Backhaus, The Population Explosion in the Frankfurt Judengasse in the Sixteenth Century
• Christhard Hoffmann , From Heinrich Heine to Isidor Kracauer: The Frankfurt Ghetto in German-Jewish Historical Culture and Historiography
• Wolfgang Treue, Jewish and Christian Elites in Frankfurt: Power and Control in an Early Modern German City
• Yaacov Deutsch, Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten: Ethnography in Early Modern Frankfurt
• Maria Diemling, The Ethnographer and the Jewish Body: Johann Jacob Schudt on the Civilisation Process of the Jews of Frankfurt
• Birgit E. Klein, The 1603 Assembly in Frankfurt: Prehistory, Ordinances, Effects
• Klaus Wolf, ‘Die judden sollen dis spiel in iren husen bliben!’ [The Jews should remain in their houses during this play]: The Ghettoisation of the Frankfurt Jews as Mirrored in Urban Plays
• Geoffrey Goldberg, Continuity and Change in Frankfurt Liturgical-Musical Customs: Text and Sub-text in Salomon Geiger’s Divrey Kehillot
• Rachel L. Greenblatt, Jewish Memory and Local History: A Commemorative Liturgy from Early Modern Prague
• Melanie Aspey, The Rothschilds and the Judengasse: New Documents from the Rothschild Archive on the History of the Family
  
  abstracts from the previous issue

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