Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XV: People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge (Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. XV)

The Jews have been an urban people par excellence , and their influence on the urban landscape is unmistakable. Who can imagine modern Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, or New York, to name just a few examples, without their large, vibrant, and creative Jewish populations? Conversely, the urban experience has been a decisive factor in modern Jewish history. This new volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series is devoted to the theme of Jews and the modern city. It features essays on Orthodox Jewry in the city, Jewish-Christian relations, klezmer music, the impact of urbanization on German Jewry, the Jewish communities in New York and St. Petersburg, and the emergence of the first "Hebrew City" (Tel-Aviv). It also includes a discussion of the new prayer book of the Conservative movement in Israel. Like others in the series, this book presents current scholarship in the form of a symposium, essays, and book reviews by distinguished experts in Jewish studies from around the world. Published annually by the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Studies in Contemporary Jewry continues to be an invaluable resource for scholars of modern history and culture. Contents Symposium: People of the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge Antisemitism and the City: A Beginner’s Guide Orthodox Jews, the City and the Suburb Searching for the Klezmer City New York City, the Jews, and “The Urban Experience" East or West? Tel-Aviv in the 1920s and 1930s Was Urbanization Harmful to Jewish Tradition and Identity in Germany? Mythologies and Realities of Jewish Life in Prerevolutionary St. Petersburg Essay A New Rite from Israel: Reflections on Siddur Va’ani Tefillati of the Masorati (Conservative) Movement Review Essays The Megashtetl/Cosmopolis: New York Jewish History Comes of Age A Tale of Three German Cities Let My People Go: Three Studies on Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union African Americans, Jewish Americans Book Reviews Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide Götz Aly, Peter Chroust and Christian Pross, Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene David Cesarani (ed.), Genocide and Rescue: The Holocaust in Hungary Kate Cohen, The Neppi Modona Diaries: Reading Jewish Survival Through My Italian Family Albert S. Lindemann, Esau’s Tears: Modern Antisemitism and the Rise of the Jews Odette Meyers, Doors to Madame Marie Lore Shelly (ed. and trans.), The Union Kommando in Auschwitz: The Auschwitz Munitions Factory Through the Eyes of Its Former Slave Laborers (Studies in the Shoah, Vol. 13) History and the Social Sciences Gershon C. Bacon, The Politics of Tradition: Agudat Yisrael in Poland, 1916–1939 Daniel Blatman, Lema’an herutenu veherutkhem: habund bepolin 1939–1949 (For Our Freedom and Yours: The Jewish Labor Bund in Poland 1939–1949) Petrus Buwalda, They Did Not Dwell Alone: Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union, 1967–1990 Steven Cassedy, To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America Henry L. Feingold, Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American Jewish Past Kathie Friedman-Kasaba, Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870–1924 Harvey Goldberg (ed.), Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Jewish Orthodoxy in Historical Perspective Moshe Hartman and Harriet Hartman, Gender Equality and American Jews Oded Heilbronner (ed.), Weimar Jewry and the Crisis of Modernization, 1918–1933 Milton Hindus (ed.), The Jewish East Side 1881–1924 Clive Jones, Soviet Jewish Aliyah 1989–92: Impact and Implications for Israel and the Middle East Anthony Kauders, German Politics and the Jews: Düsseldorf and Nuremberg, 1910–1933 Noah Lewin-Epstein, Yaacov Ro’i and Paul Ritterband (eds.), Russian Jews on Three Continents: Migration and Resettlement Martin Liepach, Das Wahlverhalten der jüdischen Bevölkerung in der Weimarer Republik Shulamit S. Magnus, Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798–1871 Daniel Soyer, Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939 Beth S. Wenger, New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise Language, Literature and the Arts Katya Gibel Azoulay, Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity Alan Cooper, Philip Roth and the Jews Harley Erdman, Staging the Jew: The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860–1920 Ken Frieden, Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem and Peretz Sander Gilman, Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient Pierre Horn, Modern Jewish Writers in France Jane Lazarre, Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother Elaine Marks, Marrano as Metaphor: The Jewish Presence in French Writing Harold B. Segel (ed.), Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature Efraim Sicher, Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists Between Hope and Apostasy Religion, Thought and Education J. David Bleich, Contemporary Halakhic Problems, vol. 4 David Golinkin (ed.), Sheelot uteshuvot ma’aneh Levi/ The Responsa of Professor Louis Ginzberg Steven T. Katz, American Rabbi: The Life and Thought of Jacob B. Agus Steven T. Katz (ed.), The Essential Agus: Writings of Jacob B. Agus Jacqueline Rose, States of Fantasy Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher-Fishkin (eds.), People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity Zionism, Israel and the Middle East Michael N. Barnett (ed.), Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom Michael Brown, The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914–1945 Alan Dowty, The Jewish State: A Century Later Allon Gal (ed.), Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, Apple of Gold: Constitutionalism in Israel and the United States Ruth Linn, Conscience at War: The Israel Soldier as a Moral Critic Contents for Volume XVI Note on Editorial Policy

The Jews have been an urban people par excellence, and their influence on the urban landscape is unmistakable. Who can imagine modern Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, or New York, to name just a few examples, without their large, vibrant, and creative Jewish populations? Conversely, the urban experience has been a decisive factor in modern Jewish history.

This new volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series is devoted to the theme of Jews and the modern city. It features essays on Orthodox Jewry in the city, Jewish-Christian relations, klezmer music, the impact of urbanization on German Jewry, the Jewish communities in New York and St. Petersburg, and the emergence of the first Hebrew City (Tel-Aviv). It also includes a discussion of the new prayer book of the Conservative movement in Israel.

Like others in the series, this book presents current scholarship in the form of a symposium, essays, and book reviews by distinguished experts in Jewish studies from around the world. Published annually by the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Studies in Contemporary Jewry continues to be an invaluable resource for scholars of modern history and culture.

Izso Koves (1853-1917), a Hungarian-born artist of Jewish origin, had a particular interest in portraying scenes of Jewish history: Spinoza before his judges; the Tortosa debate (the famous Jewish-Christian disputation in early 15th-century Spain); and a canvas integrating Hungarian and Jewish history, The Jews of Buda before King Matthias, which depicts a Jewish delegation joining the procession to meet Matthias and his queen, Beatrix of Aragon, on their return to the city following their marriage in 1476.