Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1462169x.2022.2137321
Charles Knight
ABSTRACT Based on the letters of Theodor Hirschberg held in the special collections at the University of Southampton, this article will problematise our understanding of letters as a source for narrative construction. Theodor fled from Berlin to London in 1939 and wrote to various members of his family until 1941. In discussing the biographies of individuals encountered in the collection, the article will note the problems but also the opportunities and nuances of using the epistolary as a source. Centring around three core debates, narratives created from Theodor’s letters will speak to silences and epistemology, ethical practice, and pragmatic concerns.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2131060
D. Renshaw
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of fin-de-siècle European antisemitism through the lens of two gothic novels, Jules Verne’s Le Château des Carpathes and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The complexities of Verne’s depictions of Jews are placed in the wider context of persecution, integration and exclusion, and economic characterisations of ‘the Jew’ in Western and Eastern Europe. This is compared with the visceral fear of the ‘other’ as expressed in Dracula. The differences between implicit and explicit prejudice in the two texts are considered as components of the wider antisemitic discourse present in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2096311
C. Knight
efforts by Polish historians to emancipate from Habsburg historiography in the 19 century, and with the establishment of state historiography from the 1920s. Another question could be whether Ukrainian historians could have been strategic allies in the 1900s, when Mykhailo Hrushevsky challenged Polish dominance at L’viv University, or after 1918, as Ukrainian historians fought against their marginalization in Polish academia. Even if the answer would most likely be negative (examples of momentary cooperation Aleksiun mentions seem to confirm the rule, e.g., on p. 134), questions like this would tell us much about the possibilities of alliance-building between marginalized academic groups in nationalizing landscapes. Yet, the history of Ukrainian historiography in Poland is similarly underexplored (although it has received more attention in recent years). This should not in any way lessen the importance of Aleksiun’s book, but rather point toward possible extensions into an integrated history of Central European historians or scholarship in general. Aleksiun’s history is a very important step in this direction, going beyond descriptions of parallel histories. Its strength is exactly where it deals with the richness of Jewish history in Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew, bringing to life a largely forgotten community. It also shows that the richness of this community and especially its place outside of academia is partially caused by the lack of possibilities to get academic jobs, thus telling a story which confirms mechanisms also present in Vienna and Berlin around 1900. Acribic and yet not overwhelming with detail, it is a must-read both for those interested in the Jewish history of Central Europe and historians of scholarship from and of the region.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2098635
Paul Ariese
ABSTRACT Across Europe, Jewish museums are housed in former synagogues, representing Jewish religious life through exhibits of ceremonial collections. Besides the absences of active communities of users and liturgical practices, the multi-layered meaning of these spaces and objects contribute to these narrative environments’ ambiguity. Based on an interdisciplinary review of literature in the fields of Jewish studies, material religion studies and museum and heritage studies, this article proposes three sensitising concepts as a tool to further explore the religion-heritage entanglement at these sites: (1) practices of sacralisation, (2) practices of transformation, and (3) practices of representation.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2109293
Cathy S. Gelbin
ABSTRACT This piece explores the clashing preconceptions and elective affinities regarding queerness and Jewishness in the filmic representation of intersectional queer and Jewish sensibilities from the 1980s to the present, a period in which postmodern paradigms came to the fore in popular culture, academic theory and alternative community politics. As I argue, these films convey a tug and pull between religious tradition and cultural innovation; between the old essentialisms and new fluidities associated with ethnicized, gendered and sexualized constellations and between Israel and the Diaspora, with varying relevance to cosmopolitanist and nationalistic discourses.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1462169x.2022.2096310
J. Surman
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Migration is the most significant characteristics of Europe after World War II. In many European countries, in particular in Western Europe, it has led to multiethnic societies with special integration problems but only in more recent times its impact for multireligious pluralism was discovered in social sciences studies. It is therefore necessary to have a closer look at both: multiethnicity and religious pluralism and its respective consequences for the social peaceful living together in society, especially as concerns present-day Germany.
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This article discusses the distribution of two post-New Order Indonesian non-commercial films, namely Turah and Prenjak. Eclectic methods employed in this research consist of (1) a textual-descriptive method to reveal the message of the films in correlation with its distribution aspect, and (2) an ethnographic method with in-depth interview technique to reveal how the distribution of the two films is carried out. This article shows that the distribution of Turah and Prenjak has several similarities as well as differences. Thematically, they talk about the lives of the poor, though they use different angles. In terms of distribution, both utilize film festivals as the main distribution media, both at national and international levels. Turah and Prenjak also achieved recognitions at various film festivals. The striking difference is in the choice of film distribution and screening road shows. Turah entered mainstream cinema and benefited from road shows while Prenjak did neither. This is mainly due to sensitive scenes in Prenjak showing vagina and penis which makes the film unable to be widely screened. It was distributed only for film festivals and limited screenings. Meanwhile, Turah, which does not display any scenes related to pornography, has the flexibility in its distribution. This shows that as part of circuit of culture, film distribution—as an act to circulate the film’s vision and ideology—is closely related to the process of production, consumption and also regulation.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2084218
Galia Hasharoni
ABSTRACT The Paper focuses on the Zionist Organizations founded in Mandatory Palestine. They presented ideas about age, gender, and Zionism which opposed Zionist perceptions that became dominant throughout the Yishuv on the eve of World War II. The organizations challenged dominant perceptions on masculinity, and by internalizing the category of age-related identity, the seniors sought to promote broader acceptance of forms of masculinity using their newspaper as a platform. The organizations of the senior Zionists were characterized by a male subculture of aging.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-31DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2022.2084219
K. Cohen-Hattab
ABSTRACT This article deals with the first groups (convoys) of Jewish tourists who traveled to Eretz Israel at the end of the Ottoman period and examines them in light of the typology of pilgrimage, tourism and Zionism. The participants in the convoys felt they had a mission to become familiar with Palestine, in order for them to express their opinion regarding the chances of settling there in the future. The interest that the participants in the convoys showed in the Jewish enterprise in Palestine were also milestone in the efforts to unite the factions of Jewish Yishuv in Palestine.
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