... cohabitation Germano Elio Giglio island Appiah Kwame Anthony Benhabib Seyla the postcolonial Avallone Gennaro colonialism deportation Parati Graziella precarity Torre Salvo Zappoli Giancarlo citizenship Hospitality Migration Prostitution Mediterranean Maternal Eastern Europe Marco Tullio...

...This chapter investigates the phenomenon of remarriage in nineteenth-century eastern Europe, demonstrating its significance in Jewish marital behaviour. Patterns of remarriage deserve attention for a number of reasons: they influenced fertility levels, affected family structure, played a role...

...This chapter studies the role that Hasidism played in the thought of the modernized Jewish intelligentsia of Eastern Europe toward the end of the 19th century. Simon Dubnow played a pivotal role in the emergence of this new image of Hasidism. In his autobiography, Dubnow describes in some detail...

... acceptance throughout eastern Europe, and the persistence of this process despite the vehement opposition encountered by the new movement. The most influential attempts to answer this question have been those of Simon Dubnow, Benzion Dinur, and Raphael Mahler. All three historians sought to explain...

... and better understood in the diaspora, in Israel, and in the countries of eastern Europe. The Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews and Stalin's efforts to eradicate their culture ultimately failed. There are still Jews in eastern Europe, and the rich culture the Jews created there remains a source...

... during the main centre of popular culture and the entertainment industry, which was mostly shaped by immigrants and several Jews from eastern Europe. The chapter reviews the beginnings of the Polish record industry that dated back to the early twentieth century and mentions the Jewish entrepreneurs...

...This chapter studies the history of Jewish women in eastern Europe. In the period between 1750 and 1914, the patriarchal character of Jewish society and the inferior position of women within it was increasingly undermined. Initially this created a crisis of the Jewish family with rocketing divorce...

...This chapter presents a brief analysis of Larry Wolff's Inventing Eastern Europe. The book aims to deconstruct the term ‘eastern Europe’, arguing that the modern view of this region as exotic and backward took form in the eighteenth century — a point that provides much food...

...This chapter shows how the battles over the Pittsburgh Platform were being fought over a terrain which other factors were already transforming. Large-scale migration from Eastern Europe had begun. The number of Jews in the United States, estimated at 250,000 in 1880, reached the million mark...

...This chapter gives a general overview of the development of cantorial singing in the Polish lands. It discusses eastern Europe as the youngest when it came to the traditions of synagogue music. It also explains how eastern Europe is rooted in the Middle East and its direct origins lie...

...-communist eastern Europe. It also mentions the various scholars that labelled the klezmer revival in different degrees of scepticism, such as “Jewish space,” “virtual Jewishness,” “redemptive cosmopolitanism,” or “post-Jewish culture.” The chapter discusses the Jewish heritage revival in Poland...

... contemporary approaches to the division from the Orthodox side. The chapter explores how classical civilisation and modernisation theories and their contemporary heirs have addressed the subject of cultural difference between the West and Orthodoxy in Eastern Europe, arguing that, in the context of today's...

...This chapter focuses on two books on Eastern European national minorities. The first is Stephen Horak's comprehensive handbook of national minorities in Eastern Europe between 1919 and 1980. Arranged by ‘state-nation’, the studies contained in the handbook offer a brief historical survey...

... to minimize or totally break off the already limited relations with the neighbouring Jewish world of Eastern Europe. Around 1850 and later, the term ‘Ostjude’ stood for an image of an uncivilized, superstitious Easterner totally alien to the German Jew. Only when the assimilationist process suffered its first...

... of Hamlet and the social contexts for Turgenev which gave the play a specific cultural meaning. It then considers how the play has functioned recently in theatrical productions in Eastern Europe, in the former Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact. Cervantes Miguel de Chekhov Anton Shakespeare William...

... they were settling. For the Irish there was a durable myth of return to Ireland, as well as a continuing hostility towards the British state. For Jews, the break with Eastern Europe was usually a permanent one, and settlement in Britain was more likely to be free of resentment towards the country in which...

...Jews have been active participants in shaping the healing practices of the communities of eastern Europe. Their approach largely combined the ideas of traditional Ashkenazi culture with the heritage of medieval and early modern medicine. Holy rabbis and faith healers, as well as Jewish barbers...

... for institutionalization. Dormitories did not usually merit a great deal of attention in pre-Holocaust eastern Europe. However, they reflected some very basic developments in Jewish society; they illustrate the great sensitivity and responsiveness of traditionalist circles to the major changes Jewish society...

... to maintain a separate identity among the Jews of eastern Europe until the First World War. hasidism mitnagedim Poland students yeshivas batei midrash community yeshiva contrasted with beit midrash social mobility Torah study Lida yeshiva Malech yeshiva at Novogrudok Slutsk yeshiva mashgiḥim...

...This chapter examines the impact of institutionalised racism in Romania and elsewhere in eastern Europe, with an emphasis on the so-called ‘Gypsy problem’ whereby Romani peoples continue to be vilified as a criminal subculture across Europe. It argues that the discrimination against the Roma...