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{"title":"‘The flying camel’: defending Jewish state-building in mandatory Palestine on the Levant Fairs of Tel Aviv in the 1930s","authors":"Julia Wölfel","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2022.2058624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2058624","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This contribution analyzes the international trade fairs of Tel Aviv during the 1930s, the so-called ‘Levant Fairs,’ as a Zionist means to defend Jewish state-building in Mandatory Palestine. To do so, it is concerned with the Levant Fairs’ international and regional context. It is shown that first, the Levant Fairs promoted the Zionist state-building endeavours to an international audience; and second, the Levant Fairs revealed the declining support of the British, and an increasing struggle with the Palestinian Arabs. The arguments are supported by press articles concerning the fairs themselves.","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43783557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mind the map: charting unexplored territories of in-visible migrations from North Africa and the Middle East to Italy","authors":"P. Rossetto","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2022.2062840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2062840","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Visibility and invisibility represent crucial categories of analysis in migration studies. However, the multiple manifestations of in-visibility can make it difficult to precisely define them. This article suggests reconsidering these categories not so much in terms of ‘what they are’ but rather ‘when they occur’. By encompassing the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of social interaction and analysis, in-visibility proves to be a viable category to explore the case of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish migrations to Milan, Italy–an area that still remains ‘uncharted territory’ for scholars of Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49276997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s elitist humanism and multiculturalism in postwar rhythm and blues music","authors":"A. Katorza","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2022.2066325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2066325","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the connection between the postwar Black-Jewish cooperation in popular music and American ethnic politics through the case study of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller – the successful duo R&B songwriters of the 1950s and early 1960s. These Jewish songwriters and music producers carried out some important historical work collaborating with Afro-American performers. The article discusses Leiber & Stoller’s contribution to postwar multiculturalism through a specific blend of elitist-humanism that relates to the politics of American Jews in the music industry as having much more subversive sensibilities than the academic discourse used to portray.","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43630339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collective documentation from the beginning of WWII: the ‘rikuz’ in Vilna as a case study","authors":"Daniela Ozacky Stern","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2022.2037220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2037220","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT About 600 young members of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist-Socialist youth movement who fled from Poland at the beginning of WWII to Lithuanian-controlled Vilna formed a collective group there, a ‘Rikuz’. Despite poor physical and material conditions, they led a rich cultural, intellectual, and spiritual life, which they documented intensively. Their detailed first-person ego-documentation consisted of writings and photographs. This unique body of documents survived, brought to Eretz-Israel, and preserved. Interestingly, the unusual story of the Rikuz in Vilna, although exceptional and well documented, was not researched enough nor brought to public attention. The article analyses the documents and discusses the possible reasons for this omission. It aims to tell the Rikuz’s story as was perceived by its protagonists and reclaim its rightful place in historical acknowledgment.","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47623749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Places, spaces, and voids in the holocaust (European holocaust studies, Vol. 3)","authors":"Jaime Ashworth","doi":"10.1080/1462169x.2022.2053430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169x.2022.2053430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47308653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tumulte – Excesse – Pogrome. Kollektive Gewalt gegen Juden in Europa 1789–1900","authors":"Jan Rybak","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2022.2053072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2053072","url":null,"abstract":"words) we are ‘standing within a void of memory’ (p. 259) is not an absence to be overcome but a vital part of what it means to engage with the history and legacy of mass death. Some experiences – the final seconds in the gas chamber, for example – are not entirely recoverable. It is the sense of silence at the end of Dan Pagis’s poem ‘written in pencil in a sealed railway car’ that draws us on: what does ‘eve’ wish us to tell cain, her other son? But the void cannot be penetrated: we have to provide that voice, or cope with its absence. This perhaps explains the slightly abbreviated tone of Tal Bruttman, Stefan Hördler, and Christoph Kreutzmüller in their spatial analysis of Lilli Jacob’s Album (pp. 137–166). As they concede, while the spatial analysis yields much, ‘Topography is not the centre of the album’s narrative and logic.’ (p. 164) In explaining the album as a illustration of how well the SS ‘organized the “flow” of the Jews and their dispossessed possessions against the backdrop of the camp’ (p. 164) they neglect the voids of representation within it: the gas chambers themselves, and the disposal of bodies. If demosntrating efficency was the goal, why not depict the ‘output’? I argue that the album was intended to act as a memory-object for the SS in an alternative postwar world in which Nazism prevailed, working within the tension of Himmler’s description of the murder of European Jewry as a ‘glorious page in our history and that has never been written and can never be written’. The void can sometimes be instructive without being investigated. That this treads a line between investigation and mystification is something that, as time goes on, we shall have to reconcile ourselves to. While this collection illustrates what rigorous and imaginative research can do to fill in even hard-to-recover gaps, we must not forget that there is, in the words of Roland Barthes, a reality from which we are sheltered. Those who could have told us of those ‘voids’ have either (following Primo Levi) returned mute or not returned at all. This excellent volume shows that there is much more to be said about the Holocaust, but it perhaps also highlights that we can allow ourselves to feel the silences as well.","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42570140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jews Court, Lincoln – an evaluation of Cecil Roth’s medieval synagogue and the discourse on the English medieval synagogue taking a buildings archaeology approach","authors":"E. Wild","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2022.2025661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2025661","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents an overview investigation of Jews’ Court, Lincoln, research findings, and preliminary thoughts on the form and location of the English medieval synagogue. Dr Cecil Roth assigned synagogue use to the building in the medieval period; however, its appearance is of post-medieval date. The study which took a buildings archaeology approach concluded that Roth’s hypothesis was incorrect. It further investigated the divergent opinions on the building’s construction date and phasing. This paper presents thoughts on the use of medieval building typologies to inform the understanding of the material evidence for the Medieval Anglo-Jewish community and hypotheses on the form and location of medieval synagogues.","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48682126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Appendix: a symposium on Simon de Montfort, the Jews and the politics of naming","authors":"T. Kushner, T. Griffiths","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2022.2019984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2019984","url":null,"abstract":"Why do we publish a mini-symposium in Jewish Culture and History about Simon de Montfort, Sixth Earl of Leicester, a thirteenth century ‘English’ (actually French) Nobleman? If this was the Journal of Medieval History there would be no need for any such justification, or even the English Historical Review, given the importance of de Montfort in domestic history, and especially that of the evolution of parliament. But in a Jewish studies journal, especially one that prides itself on interdisciplinarity and a deep chronological and geographical range? In terms of the history of English antisemitism, de Montfort would earn his keep for inclusion as an innovator (expelling Jews from a particular town, a precursor for the world first of expulsion from a whole kingdom which happened in 1290), and as someone whose religiously inspired hatred for nonChristians (and some Christians as well), was especially profound. Ideology and power were a murderous mix in his case, one that was exceptional even in thirteenth century England. His antisemitism, however, would not quite perhaps be enough to merit the minisymposium in this journal. There is a wider significance and first it concerns the relationship between history and representation and the growing ‘memory wars’ that are being used to justify racial intolerance and populist extremism in the western world. Slow burning in the case of Leicester, there has been an awareness since at least the early 1990s, that the naming not just of its second university, but his memorial presence in the whole of the city, was problematic and offensive to the local Jewish community and beyond. The summer of 2020, the murder of George Floyd, and the new momentum behind the Black Lives Matter movement, gave a global focus to heritage that commemorated racists of both the distant and recent past. There was a renewed consideration of the naming of De Montfort University, especially from its student union, which believed it was incompatible with the claims to equality and diversity policies made by this higher education institute. An online symposium was organised to discuss the issue. A cynical view would be that the management of the university believed that calling a small event where inevitably views would be complex and competing, would take the sting out of the issue. It would be expensive and messy to rename a university, especially unwelcome at a time of Covid related financial stringency. Readers of the diverse views expressed in this","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42144772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘New perspectives on religious conversion in medieval England’ a review essay on Lauren Fogle, The King’s Converts: Jewish Conversion in Medieval London, Lexington Books, Lanham 2019","authors":"Ahuva Liberles","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2022.2019985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2019985","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper is a review essay on a new publication concerning Anglo-Jewish history: Lauren Fogle, The King’s Converts: Jewish Conversion in Medieval London. After addressing the contents of the aforementioned monograph, I concentrate on new aspects of research on Jewish medieval conversion to Christianity. The second part of the essay is dedicated to some methodological concerns. The essay closes with a discussion on the necessity of integrating the perspective of Jewish sources when writing about Jews.","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47570728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contested identities: interpreting and representing medieval Jewish History in Bristol","authors":"T. Griffiths","doi":"10.1080/1462169X.2022.2024342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2022.2024342","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the late 1980s, a potentially significant site with links to the city’s medieval Jews was discovered in Bristol. The site has ‘Scheduled Monument’ status, granted by Historic England, and has been described as a ritual bath, ranging from mikveh to bet tohorah. This paper takes an interdisciplinary approach, discussing the complexities of interpreting the monument, its authenticity, and significance to the memory of local medieval Jewish history. This paper highlights utilises the historical narrative of the site and the roles of multiple stakeholders to frame wider considerations of prominent issues concerning identity, authority and ownership.","PeriodicalId":35214,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Culture and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42002787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}