Jews and Journeys : Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity

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Cover -- Jews and Journeys -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Departures -- Chapter 2. Why Do We Need a Cultural History of Travel-and What Do the Jews Have to Do with It? -- Part II. Traveling with the Bible -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. The Travels and Travails of Abraham -- Chapter 4. Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Pilgrimage Narratives -- Chapter 5. Prophecy and Peregrination: Curious Encounters with Biblical Lands and Biblical Texts in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Part III. Jewish Orientalism -- Introduction -- Chapter 6. Flying Camels and Other Remarkable Species: Natural Marvels in Medieval Hebrew Travel Accounts -- Chapter 7. A Jewish Critique of European Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: Marco Navarra's Lettere orientali -- Chapter 8. No Place Like Home: The Uses of Travel in Early Maskilic Translations -- Part IV. Traveling With and Without Others: The Effects of the Familiar and Unfamiliar -- Introduction -- Chapter 9. Travel and Poverty: The Itinerant Pauper in Medieval Jewish Society in Islamic Countries -- Chapter 10. The Jewish Tradition of the Wandering Jew: The Poetics of Long Duration -- Chapter 11. Between the Wild and the Civilized: A Yiddish Travel Writer in Peru -- Part V. Representations of Travel: Mapping and Remapping -- Introduction -- Chapter 12. The New Zionist Road Map: From Old Gravesites to New Settlements -- Chapter 13. Heritage Utterances in Jewish Destinations: Travelers, Texts, and Museum Visitor Books -- Chapter 14. Traveling, Seeing, and Painting: Amsterdam and the Creation of Jewish Art in the Work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck -- Chapter 15. Jerusalem Journeys: Wandering Women in Contemporary Israeli Cinema -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

What happens when Jewish authors--whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination--travel from one place to another? Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become a central mechanism for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity.