Jews and Urban Life

• Autore: Greenspoon Leonard J (Leonard Jay)
• Pubblicazione: West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.76089/924
• Soggetto topico: City and town life; Jews - Intellectual life; Jewish neighborhoods - History; Vie urbaine; Juifs - Vie intellectuelle; Quartiers juifs - Histoire
• Persona (resp. second.): GreenspoonLeonard J (Leonard Jay)
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 within the Jewish community itself, moving historically from the biblical period to the modern-day State of Israel. Taking a comparative approach while recognizing the particulars of individual instances, authors examine these phenomena from a wide variety of approaches, genres, and media. Interdisciplinary and accessibly written, the articles display a multitude of instances throughout history showing the range of Jewish life in urban settings"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Jews and Urban Life
• ISBN: 9781612499048; 161249904X; 9781612499031; 1612499031
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910805791703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Jewish civilization.