Format:
1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:
9783110300727
Series Statement:
New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History Ser v.5
Content:
The peer-reviewed series seeks to provide an international platform for new approaches to the study of modern Jewish history. Covering the period from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, the series focuses on cutting-edge work in social, cultural, economic, and political history. It seeks to explore new avenues in the understanding of modern Jewries in their historical contexts, encouraging a multi-layered exploration of topics which transcend the analytical boundaries of ethnicity, nation, and religion. The series embraces monographs and challenging research-oriented anthologies dedicated to a deeper understanding of essential themes in the main fields of Jewish studies, such as Jewish thought, migration, biography, Israel and the Middle East, Holocaust studies, the history of memory, and identity.
Content:
Intro -- Introduction -- Part I Migration, Politics, and Networks -- Les Russes - The Image of East European Jews in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Zurich -- Jewish Political Emigration from Imperial Russia: Mapping the World in a Different Way -- The Jewish Labor Bund in Switzerland -- Some Russian Jewish Writers in Switzerland and the Valorization of Jewish Argument Style -- Student Migration of Jews from Tsarist Russia to the Universities of Berne and Zurich, 1865-1914 -- Part II Individual Experiences, Switzerland, and the Literary Imagination -- Kalman Marmor in Switzerland: Reconstructing a Sojourner's Biography -- East European Jewish Migration to Switzerland and the Formation of "New Women" -- Ben-Ami's Swiss Experience: Narrative and the Zionist Dream -- "For the Pleasure of Life in Switzerland, I Had to Start Spitting Blood" Sholem Aleichem's Scriptwriting Debut against the Background of the Beilis Case -- Kabbalah, Dada, Communism: Meir Wiener's Lehrjahre in Switzerland during World War I -- Appendix I -- Herzl and the First Congress -- Appendix II -- Fragments of an Unfinished Yiddish Novel -- References -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110300697
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110300697
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=976722
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