Modernity and the Cities of the Jews

"Modernity and the Cities of the Jews" è il titolo del secondo numero di Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, edito dalla Fondazione CDEC.

Curato da Cristiana Facchini, il numero contiene saggi dedicati ad alcune delle più importanti città d'Europa e del mondo, alle tracce lasciate su di esse dagli ebrei e quelle che le città hanno lasciato sugli ebrei.

Venezia, Amsterdam, Trieste e Livorno, ma anche Vienna, Odessa, Varsavia, Minsk, New York, Tel Aviv.

L'indice del numero

Focus

Modernity and the cities of the Jews
Introduction by Cristiana Facchini

- Cristiana Facchini, The city, the Ghetto and two Books. Venice and Jewish Early Modernity

- Francesca Bregoli, The Port of Livorno and its "Nazione Ebrea" in the Eighteenth Century: Economic Utility and Political Reforms

- Tullia Catalan, The Ambivalence of a Port-City. The Jews of Trieste from the 19th to the 20th century 

- Joachim Schlör, Odessity: in Search of Transnational Odessa (or "Odessa the best city in the world: All about Odessa and a great many jokes")

- Dario Miccoli, Moving History. The Jews and Modernity in Alexandria 1881-1919

- Albert Lichtblau, Ambivalent modernity: the Jewish Population in Vienna

- Konstantin Akinsha, Lunching under the Goya. Jewish Art Collector during Budapest's Golden Age

- François Guesnet, Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Joel Wegmeister and Modern Hasidic Politics in Warsaw

- Mark A. Raider, Stephen S. Wise and the Urban Frontier: American Jewish Life in New York and the Pacific Northwest at the Dawn of the 20th Century

- Ehud Manor, "A source of satisfaction to all Jews, wherever they may be living". Louis Miller between New York and Tel Aviv, 1911

- Elissa Bemporad, Issues of Gender, Sovietization and Modernization in the Jewish Metropolis of Minsk.

- Mario Tedeschini Lalli, Descent from Paradise: Saul Steinberg's Italian Years, 1933-1941

Discussion

U. Eco, Il Cimitero di Praga (Milano: Bompiani 2010)

by Gadi Luzzatto Voghera 
by Simon Levis Sullam

Reviews

- S. Hamerow, Why we watched. Europe, America, and the Holocaust (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2008)
by Michele Sarfatti 

- S. Kassow, Who will write our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Bloomington [u.a.] : Indiana Univ. Press, 2007)
by Peter Klein 

- F. Guesnet, Zwischen Graetz und Dubnow : jüdische Historiographie in Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2009).
by Mirjam Thulin

- S. Sufian, M. Levine, Reapproching Borders. New Perspectives in Israeli History, (Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007)
by Marcella Simoni

- E. Schachter, Between Tradition and Transformation: The Jews of Italy, 1848-1915 (London; Portland OR.: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011)
by Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti

- F. Trivellato, Familiarity of Strangers. The Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) 
by Giovanni Ceccarelli 

Ultimo aggiornamento:  19/05/2013 - Sito aggiornato tramite "Faidate" CMS by tokenstudio s.n.c.    [ Login ]