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Overview
How have Jews experienced their environments and how have they engaged with specific places? How do Jewish spaces emerge, how are they contested, performed and used? With these questions in mind, this anthology focuses on the production of Jewish space and "lived Jewish spaces" and sheds light on their diversity, interconnectedness and multi-dimensionality. By exploring historical and contemporary case studies from around the world, the essays collected here shift the temporal focus generally applied to Jewish civilization to a spatially oriented perspective. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, with a strong foothold in cultural history and cultural anthropology, this collection introduces new methodological and conceptual methods to the study of the spatial aspects of Jewish civilization.
Synopsis
How have Jews experienced their environments and how have they engaged with specific places? How do Jewish spaces emerge, how are they contested, performed and used? With these questions in mind, this anthology focuses on the production of Jewish space and "lived Jewish spaces" and sheds light on their diversity, interconnectedness and multi-dimensionality. By exploring historical and contemporary case studies from around the world, the essays collected here shift the temporal focus generally applied to Jewish civilization to a spatially oriented perspective. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, with a strong foothold in cultural history and cultural anthropology, this collection introduces new methodological and conceptual methods to the study of the spatial aspects of Jewish civilization.