{"product_id":"space-and-place-in-jewish-studies-volume-2-9780813551821","title":"Space and Place in Jewish Studies: Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eScholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived--and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This \"spatial turn\" equally has the potential to revolutionize Jewish Studies, complicating familiar notions of Jews as \"people of the Book,\" displaced persons with only a common religious tradition and history to unite them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpace and Place in Jewish Studies \u003c\/i\u003eembraces these exciting critical developments by investigating what \"space\" has meant within Jewish culture and tradition--and how notions of \"Jewish space,\" diaspora, and home continue to resonate within contemporary discourse, bringing space to the foreground as a practical and analytical category. Barbara Mann takes us on a journey from medieval Levantine trade routes to the Eastern European \u003ci\u003eshtetl\u003c\/i\u003e to the streets of contemporary New York, introducing readers to the variety of ways in which Jews have historically formed communities and created a sense of place for themselves. Combining cutting-edge theory with rabbinics, anthropology, and literary analysis, Mann offers a fresh take on the Jewish experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e BARBARA E. MANN is an associate professor of Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor in-chief of \u003ci\u003eProoftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51180912181522,"sku":"9780813551821","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77a48a4d-e0f8-4a95-89ff-988eecba82df.jpg?v=1744386113","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/space-and-place-in-jewish-studies-volume-2-9780813551821","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}