ISBN:
9781503605145
,
1503605140
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 295 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wobick-Segev, Sarah Homes away from home
DDC:
305.892/404
Keywords:
Jews Social life and customs 20th century
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Judaism and secularism History 20th century
;
Community life History 20th century
;
Public spaces History 20th century
;
Individualism History 20th century
;
Leisure History 20th century
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Jews Social life and customs
;
Jews
;
Community life
;
Individualism
;
Jews ; Social life and customs
;
Judaism and secularism
;
Leisure
;
Public spaces
;
Alltag
;
Gesellschaftsleben
;
Identität
;
Juden
;
Öffentlichkeit
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Juifs ; Europe ; Moeurs et coutumes ; 20e siècle
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Espaces publics ; Europe ; 20e siècle
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Juifs ; Berlin (Allemagne)
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Juifs ; Paris (France)
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Juifs ; Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie ; région)
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History
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Russia (Federation) ; Saint Petersburg
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Germany ; Berlin
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France ; Paris
;
Europe
;
Berlin
;
Europa
;
Paris
;
Sankt Petersburg
Abstract:
A room of their own : friendship, fellowship and fraternity -- A place for love : autonomy, choice and partnership -- Room to grow : children, youth and informal education -- A space for Judaism : rites of passage and old-new Jewish holydays -- Rebuilding after the Shoah : the challenges of remembering and reconstruction.
Abstract:
How did Jews go from lives organized by synagogues, shul, and mikvehs to lives that-if explicitly Jewish at all-were conducted in Hillel houses, JCCs, Katz's, and even Chabad? In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape. Homes Away From Home tells the story of Ashkenazi Jews as they made their way in European society in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the Jewish communities of Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg. At a time of growing political enfranchisement for Jews within European nations, membership in the official Jewish community became increasingly optional, and Jews in turn created spaces and programs to meet new social needs. The contexts of Jewish life expanded beyond the confines of "traditional" Jewish spaces into sites of consumption and leisure, sometimes to the consternation of Jewish authorities. Sarah Wobick-Segev argues that the social practices that developed between 1890 and the 1930s-such as celebrating holydays at hotels and restaurants, or sending children to summer camp-fundamentally reshaped Jewish community, redefining and extending the boundaries of where Jewishness happened
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
