Acknowl edgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowl edgments ix
4. Part I. Introduction
5. Chapter 1. Departures 3
6. Chapter 2. Why Do We Need a Cultural History of Travel— and What Do the Jews Have to Do with It? 10
7. Part II. Traveling with the Bible
8. Introduction 23
9. Contributors 23
10. Chapter 3. The Travels and Travails of Abraham 29
11. Chapter 4. Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Pilgrimage Narratives 46
12. Chapter 5. Prophecy and Peregrination: Curious Encounters with Biblical Lands and Biblical Texts in the Eigh teenth and Nineteenth Centuries 63
13. Part III. Jewish Orientalism
14. Introduction 93
15. Contributors 93
16. Chapter 6. Flying Camels and Other Remarkable Species: Natu ral Marvels in Medieval Hebrew Travel Accounts 100
17. Chapter 7. A Jewish Critique of Eu ro pean Orientalism in the Eigh teenth Century: Marco Navarra’s Lettere orientali 116
18. Chapter 8. No Place Like Home: The Uses of Travel in Early Maskilic Translations 129
19. Part IV. Traveling With and Without Others: The Effects of the Familiar and Unfamiliar
20. Introduction 147
21. Contributors 147
22. Chapter 9. Travel and Poverty: The Itinerant Pauper in Medieval Jewish Society in Islamic Countries 154
23. Chapter 10. The Jewish Tradition of the Wandering Jew: The Poetics of Long Duration 171
24. Chapter 11. Between the Wild and the Civilized: A Yiddish Travel Writer in Peru 183
25. Part V. Repre sen ta tions of Travel: Mapping and Remapping
26. Introduction 211
27. Contributors 211
28. Chapter 12. The New Zionist Road Map: From Old Gravesites to New Settlements 217
29. Chapter 13. Heritage Utterances in Jewish Destinations: Travelers, Texts, and Museum Visitor Books 230
30. Chapter 14. Traveling, Seeing, and Painting: Amsterdam and the Creation of Jewish Art in the Work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck 256
31. Chapter 15. Jerusalem Journeys: Wandering Women in Con temporary Israeli Cinema 269
32. Notes 283
33. Contributors 339
34. Index 343