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Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold
a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an
individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is
always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true
throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of
travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their
identity in the eyes of others. How does travel writing, as a
genre, produce representations of the world of others, against
which one's own self can be invented or explored? And what happens
when Jewish authors in particular—whether by force or of their
own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel
from one place to another? How has travel figured in the formation
of Jewish identity, and what cultural and ideological work is
performed by texts that document or figure specifically Jewish
travel? Featuring essays on topics that range from Abraham as a
traveler in biblical narrative to the guest book entries at
contemporary Israeli museum and memorial sites; from the marvels
medieval travelers claim to have encountered to eighteenth-century
Jewish critiques of Orientalism; from the Wandering Jew of legend
to one mid-twentieth-century Yiddish writer's accounts of his
travels through Peru, Jews and Journeys explores what it is about
travel writing that enables it to become one of the central
mechanisms for exploring the realities and fictions of individual
and collective identity.
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