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Virtual and Real-Life Spaces of Jewish Europe in the 21st Century
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Edited by:
Maja Hultman
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Funded by:
University of Gothenburg
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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The first decades of the 21st century have presented numerous challenges for European Jewry: far-right movements and a rise of antisemitism, a global pandemic, and a war on European soil. At the same time, heritage sites commemorating the Jewish past and the use of digital platforms to create new forms of communication and cultural co-construction are growing. Using a variety of spaces – heritage sites, museums, digital practices, urban topography, and communal activities – as case studies, this collective volume analyses whether they might serve as a reminder that despite moments of crisis, Jewish life in Europe persists.
The spatial analysis offered by the volume uses the concept of “virtuality” as a starting point, thereby engaging anew with spatial concepts laid out by scholars in the 1990s. Now, 30 years later, prompted by today’s political, social, and cultural European landscape, as well as the increasing role of digitization, the authors discuss the meaning of “virtuality” and how it relates to notions of “authenticity” and “reality” in Jewish culture and in Jewish/non-Jewish relations. As such, the book provides a fresh take on and a new way forward for the conceptualizations and applications of “space”, which together offer particularly useful avenues to access power relations, identity (re-)constructions, and performative aspects of the European Jewish experience.Author / Editor information
Maja Hultman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Joachim Schlör, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
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Part I: Introduction
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Ruth Ellen Gruber Open Access Download PDF |
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Diana Pinto Open Access Download PDF |
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Part II: Digital Practices
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Kyra Schulman Open Access Download PDF |
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Alla Marchenko Open Access Download PDF |
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Dekel Peretz Open Access Download PDF |
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Part III: Heritage
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Magdalena Abraham-Diefenbach Open Access Download PDF |
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Susanne Urban Open Access Download PDF |
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Part IV: Public Spaces
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Karin Brygger and Maja Hultman Open Access Download PDF |
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 22, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111268132
Hardcover published on:
September 22, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111246215
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
10
Main content:
260
Illustrations:
10
Tables:
2
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars in Jewish cultural studies, history, ethnography, anthropology, and digital humanities
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BY 4.0
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