Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory Zakor v'Makor

by Cesarani, David; Kushner, Tony; Shain, Milton

• ISBN13: 9780853039402
• ISBN10: 0853039402
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell

Summary

The twelve essays in this fascinating collection range broadly over time, covering the period from early modern era to the early hventy first century. Their geographical scope is also impressive, including Europe, north and south America, Australia, north and South Africa and the far east, the 'old' and the 'new' worlds. What unites these essays -whether dealing with centre or periphery -is the interrogation of place and (displacement) in the Jewish experience and in the construction of Jewish identities. These studies are given further complexity and unity of purpose by studying the relationship of history and memory in negotiating Jewish identities in relation to time and place. What emerges is a rich volume bringing together established academics and younger scholars. All the essays have a strong historical context but they provide insights informed by the fields of literary, cultural, geographical, anthropological, racial and ethnic and sociological studies. The dynamics behveen migration and settlement and the processes of racialisation run across this volume as a whole, adding to its multi-layered, challenging and ultimately exciting nature.

Author Biography

David Cesarani is Research Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. His many publications include (ed.) Jews and Port Cities 1590-1990 (2006) and Eichmann: His Life and Crimes (2004) Tony Kushner is Professor of History and Director of the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton. His recent publications include Remembering Refugees: Then and Now (2006) and Anglo-Jewry Since 1066 (2009) Milton Shain is Professor in the Department of Historical Studies and Director of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town. He has published widely in the field of South African Jewish history, most recently (with Richard Mendelsohn), The Jews in South Africa. An Illustrated History (2008)

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Place, Displacement and Belonging
Foreigners in their Own City: Italian Fascism and the Dispersal of Trieste's Port Jews	p. 15
'Lost Worlds': Reflections on Home and Belonging in Jewish Holocaust Survivor Testimonies	p. 29
Constructing a Usable Past: History, Memory and South African Jewry in an Age of Anxiety	p. 43
Comparing the Jewish and Irish Communities in Twentieth Century Scotland	p. 53
Race, Place and Periphery
On Burial, Boundaries and the Creolisation of the Surinamese Jewish Community	p. 71
Memory, Place and Displacement in the Formation of Jewish Identity in Rangoon and Surabaya	p. 88
Jews of Algiers	p. 99
Jewish Identity in Two Remote Areas of the Cape Province: A Double Case Study	p. 114
Place, Migration and Memory Works
Migration, Location and Memory: Jewish History through a Comparative Lens	p. 131
Putting London Jewish Intellectuals in their Place	p. 141
Memory at the Margins, Matter out of Place: Hidden Narratives of Jewish Settlement and Movement in Britain	p. 154
'A Slice of Eastern Europe in Johannesburg': Yiddish Theatre in Doornfontein, 1929-49	p. 169
Abstracts	p. 181
Notes on Contributors	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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