By Barbara E. Mann
Scholars within the humanities became more and more drawn to questions of ways area is produced and perceived—and they've got came across that this attention of human geography significantly enriches our figuring out of cultural heritage. This “spatial flip” both has the aptitude to revolutionize Jewish stories, complicating everyday notions of Jews as “people of the Book,” displaced folks with just a universal spiritual culture and historical past to unite them.
Space and position in Jewish reviews embraces those fascinating serious advancements via investigating what “space” has intended inside Jewish tradition and tradition—and how notions of “Jewish space,” diaspora, and residential proceed to resonate inside of modern discourse, bringing area to the foreground as a realistic and analytical class. Barbara Mann takes us on a trip from medieval Levantine exchange routes to the japanese ecu shtetl to the streets of latest big apple, introducing readers to the range of how during which Jews have traditionally shaped groups and created a feeling of position for themselves. Combining state-of-the-art concept with rabbinics, anthropology, and literary research, Mann bargains a clean tackle the Jewish experience.
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