| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Series |
Studies in Jewish civilization, 1070-8510 ; volume 33 |
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Studies in Jewish civilization ; 33.
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| Note |
"The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
City and town life.
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Jews -- Intellectual life.
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Jewish neighborhoods -- History.
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Vie urbaine.
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Juifs -- Vie intellectuelle.
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Quartiers juifs -- Histoire.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
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| Added Author |
Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay), editor.
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| Added Title |
Jews & urban life |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781612499017 1612499015 9781612499024 1612499023 (DLC) 2023948099 (OCoLC)1373607821 |
| ISBN |
9781612499048 (electronic bk.) |
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161249904X (electronic bk.) |
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9781612499017 |
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1612499015 |
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9781612499024 |
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1612499023 |
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