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Jews on the Move: Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought and its Others (Hardcover)
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Jews on the Move: Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought and its Others (Hardcover)
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Jewish cosmopolitanism is key to understanding both modern
globalization, and the old and new nationalism. Jewish cultures
existing in the Western world during the last two centuries have
been and continue to be read as hyphenated phenomena within a
specific national context, such as German-Jewish or American-Jewish
culture. Yet to what extent do such nationalized constructs of
Jewish culture and identity still dominate Jewish self-expressions,
and the discourses about them, in the rapidly globalizing world of
the twenty-first century? In a world in which Diaspora societies
have begun to reshape themselves as part of a super- or nonnational
identity, what has happened to a cosmopolitan Jewish identity? In a
post-Zionist world, where one of the newest and most substantial
Diaspora communities is that of Israelis, in the new globalized
culture, is "being Jewish" suddenly something that can reach beyond
the older models of Diasporic integration or nationalism? Which new
paradigms of Jewish self-location, within the evolving and
conflicting global discourses, about the nation, race, Genocides,
anti-Semitism, colonialism and postcolonialism, gender and sexual
identities does the globalization of Jewish cultures open up? To
what extent might transnational notions of Jewishness, such as
European-Jewish identity, create new discursive margins and
centers? Is there a possibility that a "virtual makom (Jewish
space)" might constitute itself? Recent studies on cosmopolitanism
cite the Jewish experience as a key to the very notion of the
movement of people for good or for ill as well as for the
resurgence of modern nationalism. These theories reflect newer
models of postcolonialism and transnationalism in regard to global
Jewish cultures. The present volume spans the widest reading of
Jewish cosmopolitisms to study "Jews on the move." This book was
originally published as a special issue of the European Review of
History.
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