Cultures on the Road

Session Submission Type: Lightning Session

Abstract

Millions of Jews around the world experienced the 1880-1918 period as one of dramatic and often wrenching transformation. For several million Jews from the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman Empires, the heart of this process was unprecedented Jewish mass migration and associated forms of transit and urbanization. Bringing together scholars of the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Sephardi world, Latin America, the US, and Ottoman Palestine's New Yishuv, this panel considers anew how mass migration's dangers real and imagined, the new possibilities it opened, and the unexpected encounters and discoveries to which it suddenly exposed several million Jews inscribed themselves in Jewish culture across languages, genres, ideologies, ideals and forms of experience.

Sub Unit

• Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities

Chair

• Karen Underhill, University of Illinois at Chicago

Individual Presentations

• Camera as Passport - Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan

• Friendly Warnings: The Work of Jewish Protection Societies in European Ports and Stations - Magdalene Klassen, Johns Hopkins University

• Middle Eastern and North African Jews as Tastemakers in Belle Époque and Interwar Paris - Devi Mays, University of Michigan; Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt University

• Kasrilevke in Petaḥ Tikva: Was the Yishuv an Extension of the Pale of Settlement? - Israel Bartal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• "To Bring the Jewish Child out of His Narrow World"? Globality, the Post-traditional Child, and the New Jewish Children's Literature - Kenneth Moss, University of Chicago