Vallentine Mitchell Publishers - Jewish Culture and History Vol 4

Jewish Culture and History

Contents of Volume 4

Issue - 4.2

Special Issue: Port Jews . Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950

Edited by: David Cesarani

Port Jews: Concepts, Cases and Questions by David Cesarani
Fields of Tension: Development Dynamics at the Port-City Interface by Brian Hoyle
Port Jews and The Three Regions of Emancipation by David Sorkin
Researching Port Jews and Port Jewries: Trieste and Beyond by Lois Dubin
Portmanteau Jews: Sephardim and Race in the Early Modern Atlantic World by Jonathan Schorsch
Germany’s Door to the World: A Haven for the Jews? Hamburg , 1590–1933 by Rainer Liedtke
A Tale of Two Port Jewish Communities: Southampton and Portsmouth Compared by Tony Kushner
The Forgotten Port Jews of London: Court Jews Who Were Also Port Jews by David Cesarani
Port Jewry of Salonika: Between Neo-colonialism and Nation-state by Mark Levene
Greeks and Jews in Salonika and Odessa: Inter-ethnic Relations in Cosmopolitan Port Cities by Maria Vassilikou
A Port, Not a Shtetl: Reflections on the Distinctiveness of Odessa by John D Klier
The Sorkin and Golab Theses and their Applicability to South, Southeast, and East Asian Port Jewry by Jonathan Goldstein
Conclusion: Future Research on Port Jews by David Cesarani

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Also available as a book ¦¦ 2002 ¦¦ 208 pages ¦¦ ISBN 0 7146 5349 7 cloth; ISBN 0 7146 8286 1 paper

Issue - 4.1

When Did the Liberalism of American Jews Emerge? by Geoffrey Brahm Levey
The Jew as Russifier: Lev Levanda’s Hot Times by John Klier
The Dynamics of Diaspora: The Transformation of British Jewish Identity by David Cesarani
Anglo-German Cooperation in Nineteenth-Century Jerusalem: The London Jews’ Society and the Protestant Bishopric by Yaron Perry
Early Hebrew Printing from Lublin to Safed: The Journeys of Eliezer ben Isaac Ashkenazi by Marvin J Heller
Document:
- Isaac Reggio and the London Herem of 1842 by Marc B Shapiro
Book Reviews

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