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Book SynopsisFor as long as historians have contemplated the Jewish past, they have engaged with the idea of diaspora. Dedicated to the study of transnational peoples and the linkages these people forged among themselves over the course of their wanderings and in the multiple places to which they went, the term diaspora reflects the increasing interest in migrations, trauma, globalism, and community formations. The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora acts as a comprehensive collection of scholarship that reflects the multifaceted nature of diaspora studies. Persecuted and exiled throughout their history, the Jewish people have also left familiar places to find better opportunities in new ones. But their history has consistently been defined by their permanent lack of belonging. This Oxford Handbook explores the complicated nature of diasporic Jewish life as something both destructive and generative. Contributors explore subjects as diverse as biblical and medieval representations of diaspora, th
Table of ContentsContributors Introduction, Hasia R. Diner PART I: DIASPORA AND CANONICAL WORKS 1. Exile and Diaspora in the Bible, Adele Berlin 2. Diaspora in Rabbinic Sources, Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert 3. Diaspora in Jewish Liturgy, Ruth Langer 4. The Doctrine of Exile in Kabbalah, Sharon Flatto 5. The Jewish Diaspora in Christian Thinking, Joshua Garroway SECTION TWO: THE DIASPORA AND JEWISH THOUGHT 6. Distinctiveness and Diaspora in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Thought, Michah Gottlieb 7. Diaspora in Modern Jewish Thought, Noam Pianko 8. Zionism and the Negation of the Diaspora, David Engel 9. The Intellectual Defense of the Diaspora, David Weinberg 10. The Territorial Ideology of the Diaspora, 1903-1957, Gur Alroey SECTION THREE: Four Diaspora Centers 11. Babylonia: A Diaspora Center, Geoffrey Herman 12. Spain: A Diaspora Center, Jane Gerber 13. Jews in The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: An Embedded Diaspora, Magda Teter 14. A New World Babylonia: The United States of America, Deborah Dash Moore SECTION FOUR: JEWISH DIASPORAS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE 15. The Mediterranean Jewish Diaspora of Late Antiquity, Ross S. Kraemer 16. Emergence of the Medieval Northern European Diaspora, Robert Chazan 17. Jews and Diaspora in the Medieval Islamic Middle East, Eve Krakowski 18. The Ashkenazic Diaspora of Early Modern Central Europe, Joshua Teplitsky 19. The Western Sephardic Diaspora, Miriam Bodian 20. The Mediterranean Sephardim between the 15th and 20th Centuries, Jonathan Ray 21. The Eastern European Jewish Diaspora, Tobias Brinkmann 22. German Jews Beyond Germany, Marion Kaplan 23. Holocaust Survivor Diasporas, Laura Jockusch and Avinoam J. Patt 24. The Modern Diasporas of the Jews from the Arab Middle East and North Africa, Daniel Schroeter 25. Israel and the Diaspora to 1967, Ronald Zweig 26. The Jewish Israeli Diaspora, Steven J. Gold 27. Soviet Jews and the Future of the Global Jewish Diaspora, David Shneer SECTION FIVE: THEMES ACROSS DIASPORAS 28. International Jewish Aid, Lisa Moses Leff 29. Global Jewish Organizations, David Slucki 30. Philanthropy and the Jewish Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Zohar Segev 31. Reporting the Diaspora: The Global Jewish Press, Yaron Tsur 32. Speaking Across the Diaspora: Jewish Languages Beyond Borders, Benjamin Hary 33. Liturgical Music in the Jewish Diaspora, Mark Kligman 34. Jewish Food in the Diaspora, Ari Ariel
