{"title":"Geographies of immigration: Samuel Rawet's Rio De Janeiro and Moacyr Scliar's Porto Alegre","authors":"Saul Kirschbaum","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2176209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2176209","url":null,"abstract":"The work of Moacyr Scliar and that of Samuel Rawet have at least one aspect in common. Scliar, born in Porto Alegre and the son of immigrants, and Rawet, born in Poland but no less “carioca,” dedicated to their cities – hometown or host – a prominent role, giving them, in their writings, almost the position of characters. Scliar's A guerra no Bom Fim and O exército de um homem só, and Rawet's “Reinvenção de Lázaro” and “Madrugada seca,” are eloquent examples of this protagonism. Other authors of Jewish ehtnic origin, immigrants or children of immigrants, such as Ronaldo Wrobel in Traduzindo Hannah and Eliezer Levin in Bom Retiro, followed this path. This article seeks to deepen the analysis of the relationship of the chosen authors with their cities of residence, trying to follow the geographical displacements of Jews who immigrated, notably from Eastern Europe, and their concentration in specific neighbourhoods.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"515 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136276427","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":"From the “Land of the Future”: how Latin American Jews became global","authors":"L. S. Krausz, Ilan Stavans","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2176206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2176206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46142111","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":"Topographies of memory in the short stories Judite and Réquiem para um solitário by Samuel Rawet","authors":"Kathrin Sartingen, Tatjana Wais","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2176212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2176212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44391006","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":"“Hosts, not guests, in Israel”: younger generations of Russian Israelis on the path to active citizenship","authors":"L. Remennick, Anna Prashizky","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2174417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2174417","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Jewish immigrants to Israel (olim) receive citizenship soon upon arrival and are endowed with all political and economic rights in their adopted country. Civic attitudes and behaviour of olim reflect both their pre-migration political socialization and their exposure to Israeli realities. This article highlights the dynamics of citizenship and civic participation in the younger cohorts of ex-Soviet Israelis (generations 1.5 and 2.0) vs. their parents who immigrated in the 1990s as adults (Gen 1.0). Our theoretical framing draws upon the concepts of critical citizenship, sub-politics, and cultural public sphere. Drawing on the combined analysis of national surveys and qualitative studies conducted over the last 20+ years, we examine shifts in voting patterns, volunteering, feelings of belonging, and ethnic mobilization for both national and community-specific causes. We argue that the civic agenda of ex-Soviet Israelis has evolved from mainly economically driven during the 1990s to mainly symbolic and ethno-national since the early 2000s. The findings also highlight gender differences in civil engagements of younger immigrant cohorts.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"522 - 542"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47602479","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":"Kivrei tsadikim as holy places? The tsadikification process of Jewish cemeteries in the state of Israel","authors":"D. Bar","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2177528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2177528","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the major change in the Jewish sacred space in Israel. It demonstrates the distinct process wherein pilgrimages emphasizing ancient Jewish history are often replaced by visits at the tombs of venerated contemporary figures. In various places throughout Israel (and the Diaspora), a complex system of sacred tombs has developed comprising sites that are physically and symbolically distant from Jerusalem. In recent years, cemeteries throughout the State of Israel have been transformed from burial places serving the families of the deceased to pilgrimage destinations for visitors specifically seeking to prostrate themselves on the holy graves of rabbis, public figures, and leaders of communities and Hasidic dynasties, whether Mizrachi or Ashkenazi. This tsadikification process has developed almost without institutional or national political involvement, and is the result of the activities of individuals and families, non-profit organizations, Hasidic dynasties, and various organizations promoting the expansion of the map of Jewish sanctity.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"543 - 566"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42850131","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":"Sabbatai, Sebastião: immersion and dissimilation in “A balada do falso messias”","authors":"Eviatar Oren","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2176210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2176210","url":null,"abstract":": The short story “A balada do falso messias”, by the Brazilian Jewish writer Moacyr Scliar, tells an anachronistic version of the arrival of Jews to Rio Grande do Sul in the early 1900s, which includes the historical character of Sabbatai Zevi. Scliar’s use of anachronism, parody and non-realistic representation, as well as the amalgamation of different literary traditions and historical references, serve to problematize the inherent conflicts within Jewish Brazilian identity. His version of the titular false messiah echoes and parodies not only the historical Zevi but also Christian and Lusophone messianic figures. By introducing a series of paradoxes and contradictions, the narrative suggests a process of Jewish immersion in Brazilian society not by assimilation, but rather by seclusion and rebellion. An analysis of the story’s implicit author presents it as the result of such process.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45849375","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":"Driving social change: the power of public opinion – understanding the network dynamics in German-Jewish periodical culture, 1750s–1930s","authors":"Susanne Marten-Finnis","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2023.2174416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2023.2174416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46326901","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":"The Meites sisters and the Spanish Civil War: women's support for Republican Spain from within and without","authors":"Raanan Rein","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2022.2160931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2022.2160931","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Haya and Rurh Meites left Jewish Palestine in order to help Republican Spain in its struggle against the nationalist rebellion headed by General Francisco Franco and assisted by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Their life trajectories illustrate international women’s participation in the Spanish fratricide and its limits. According to different estimates, around 700 women volunteered in Spain during the Civil War. They constituted a tiny fraction of the 35,000 or more international volunteers who flocked to Spain to support the Republican forces. Not a few of the women who wanted to enlist were rejected for their presumed inability to contribute to the anti-Fascist struggle. Whereas men could be drafted to the Brigades without any previous military experience, many of the women of the Brigades had been trained nurses and doctors, and their professional skills served to justify their enlistment. While the historiography of the International Brigades is remarkably rich, the history of women volunteers has not been sufficiently researched. Even less scholarly attention has been paid to the enlistment of Jewish women, despite their relative prominence. This article, with its focus on the lives of two women from Jewish Palestine, hopes to partially fill this lacuna.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"503 - 521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42130731","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":"“‘Are you Jewish?’”: ethnography and Indian Jewish identities","authors":"Maina Chawla Singh","doi":"10.1080/14725886.2022.2142770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2022.2142770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45748878","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":"Books Received","authors":"Georges Feydeau, J. Régnard","doi":"10.1017/S0307883300000705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300000705","url":null,"abstract":"Baker, Stuart E. Georges Feydeau and the Aesthetics of Farce. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1981. (Bowker Publ. Co.: suppliers) Pp. vii + 163. £21.75. Boekholt, Alfred. Puppets and Masks. New York: Sterling Publ. Co., Inc., 1981. Pp. 96 + illus. Can. $12.95. Booth, Michael (Ed.) Victorian Theatrical Trades. London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1981. Pp. x + 56. £3.00. Bryer, Jackson R. (Ed.) 'The Theatre We Worked For': The Letters of Eugene O'Neill to Kenneth MacGowan. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. Pp. xiii + 274. £17.50. Claus, Horst. The Theatre Director Otto Brahm. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1981. (Bowker Publ. Co.: suppliers) Pp. xi + 149. £21.75. Harris, Richard H. Modern Drama in America and England, 1950-1970. A Guide to Information Services. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1982. Pp. xii + 606. Highfill, Jr., Philip H. (Ed. and Intro.) Shakespeare's CraftjEight Lectures. Carbondale, 111.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 177. $14.95. Marker, Lise-Lone and Marker, Frederick J. Ingmar Bergman: Four Decades in the Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xvii + 262 + illus. £19.50; £5.95. Mordden, Ethan. The American Theatre. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 365. £16.00. Nicoll, Allardyce. (Sybil Rosenfeld, Ed.) The Garrick Stage: Theatres and Audience in the Eighteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 184 + illus. £6.50. Orwen, Clifford P. Jean-Francois Regnard. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. Pp. 131. $13.95. Patterson, Michael. Peter Stein: Germany's leading theatre director. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xv + 186 + illus. £17.50; £5.50. Rowell, George (Ed.) Plays by W. S. Gilbert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. ix + 189. £17.50; £4.95. Sharpe, Lesley. Schiller and the Historical Character. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 211. £12.50.","PeriodicalId":52069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"123 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0307883300000705","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44828296","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}