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Issue02 / October 2011

Focus

Modernity and the Cities of the Jews

edited by Cristiana Facchini

Saul Steinberg, Autogeography, 1966 (detail)
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York

  • Introduction by Cristiana Facchini                                        
  • The City, the Ghetto and Two Books by Cristiana Facchini                                        
  • The Port of Livorno and its “Nazione Ebrea” in the Eighteenth Century: Economic Utility and Political Reforms by Francesca Bregoli                                        
  • The Ambivalence of a Port-City. The Jews of Trieste from the 19th to the 20th Century by Tullia Catalan                                        
  • Odessity: in Search of Transnational Odessa
    (or “Odessa the best city in the world: All about Odessa and a great many jokes”)
    by Joachim Schlor                                        
  • Moving Histories. The Jews and Modernity in Alexandria 1881-1919 by Dario Miccoli                                        
  • Ambivalent Modernity: the Jewish Population in Vienna by Albert Lichtblau                                        
  • Lunching under the Goya. Jewish Collectors in Budapest at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Konstantin Akinsha                                        
  • Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Joel Wegmeister and Modern Hasidic Politics in Warsaw by Francois Guesnet                                        
  • Stephen S. Wise and the Urban Frontier: American Jewish Life in New York and the Pacific Northwest at the Dawn of the 20th Century by Mark A. Raider                                        
  • "A source of satisfaction to all Jews, wherever they may be living". Louis Miller between New York and Tel Aviv, 1911 by Ehud Manor                                        
  • Issues of Gender, Sovietization and Modernization in the Jewish Metropolis of Minsk by Elissa Bemporad                                        
  • Descent from Paradise: Saul Steinberg’s Italian Years (1933-1941) by Mario Tedeschini Lalli                                        

Discussion

Umberto Eco                                         Il Cimitero di Praga
Discussion by Simon Levis Sullam Discussion by Gadi Luzzatto Voghera

Reviews

  • Theodore S. Hamerow Why we Watched
    Europe, America and the Holocaust
    Michele Sarfatti                                        
  • Samuel D. Kassow Who Will Write Our History?
    Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
    Peter Klein                                        
  • François Guesnet (ed.) Zwischen Graetz und Dubnow: Jüdische Historiographie in Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
    Mirjam Thulin                                        
  • S. Sufian, M. LeVine (eds.) Reapproaching Borders
    New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine
    Marcella Simoni                                        
  • Elizabeth Schachter The Jews of Italy, 1848-1915
    Between Tradition and Transformation
    Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti                                        
  • Francesca Trivellato The Familiarity of Strangers
    The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
    Giovanni Ceccarelli                                        

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Focus

  • Modernity and the Cities of the Jews by Cristiana Facchini                                        
  • The City, the Ghetto and Two Books by Cristiana Facchini                                        
  • The Port of Livorno and its “Nazione Ebrea” in the Eighteenth Century: Economic Utility and Political Reforms by Francesca Bregoli                                        
  • The Ambivalence of a Port-City. The Jews of Trieste from the 19th to the 20th Century by Tullia Catalan                                        
  • Odessity: in Search of Transnational Odessa
    (or "Odessa the best city in the world: All about Odessa and a great many jokes")
    by Joachim Schlor                                        
  • Moving Histories. The Jews and Modernity in Alexandria 1881-1919 by Dario Miccoli                                        
  • Ambivalent Modernity: the Jewish Population in Vienna by Albert Lichtblau                                        
  • Lunching under the Goya. Jewish Collectors in Budapest at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Konstantin Akinsha                                        
  • Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Joel Wegmeister and Modern Hasidic Politics in Warsaw by Francois Guesnet                                        
  • Stephen S. Wise and the Urban Frontier: American Jewish Life in New York and the Pacific Northwest at the Dawn of the 20th Century by Mark A. Raider                                        
  • "A source of satisfaction to all Jews, wherever they may be living". Louis Miller between New York and Tel Aviv, 1911 by Ehud Manor                                        
  • Issues of Gender, Sovietization and Modernization in the Jewish Metropolis of Minsk by Elissa Bemporad                                        
  • Descent from Paradise: Saul Steinberg’s Italian Years (1933-1941) by Mario Tedeschini Lalli                                        

Discussion

Umberto Eco                                        
Il Cimitero di Praga
Discussion by Simon Levis Sullam
Discussion by Gadi Luzzatto Voghera

Reviews

Theodore S. Hamerow Why we Watched
Europe, America and the Holocaust
by Michele Sarfatti                                        
Samuel D. Kassow Who Will Write Our History?
Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
by Peter Klein                                        
François Guesnet (ed.) Zwischen Graetz und Dubnow: Jüdische Historiographie in Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert by Mirjam Thulin                                        
S. Sufian, M. LeVine (eds.) Reapproaching Borders
New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine
by Marcella Simoni                                        
Elizabeth Schachter The Jews of Italy, 1848-1915
Between Tradition and Transformation
by Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti                                        
Francesca Trivellato The Familiarity of Strangers
The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
by Giovanni Ceccarelli