Jewish Culture in the Age of Globalisation

Cathy S. Gelbin is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She specializes in German-Jewish culture, Holocaust Studies, gender and film. She is co-editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book and currently working on her AHRC-funded monograph (co-authored with Sander Gilman) Cosmopolitanism and the Jews.Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University, USA. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over eighty books. He is the author of the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred (1986) and was president of the Modern Language Association of America in 1995.

• Section 1: Cultural Studies and Literary Approaches 1. Introduction: Jewish culture in the age of globalisation Sander L. Gilman 2. Towards the global shtetl: golem texts in the new millennium Cathy S. Gelbin 3. The Jew’s passage to India: Desai, Rushdie and globalised culture Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse Section 2: Sociological and Historiographical Perspectives 4. The emergence of alternative Jewish tourism Caryn Aviv 5. Globalisation, anti-globalisation and the Jewish ‘question’ Susie Jacobs 6. Jewish law in the age of globalisation: conceptual impacts, multi-player interaction and halachic re-organisation of the Jewish ‘community’ Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer 7. Holocaust memory in the twenty-first century: between national reshaping and globalisation Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Marcel Stoetzler 8. Living local: some remarks on the creation of social groups of young Jews in present-day London Dani Kranz Section 3: National Case Studies 9. Jewish cultures, identities and contingencies: reflections from the South African experience Milton Shain 10. Samba and Shoah: ethnic, religious and social diversity in Brazil Rosana Kohl Bines 11. The third way: German – Russian – European Jewish identity in a global Jewish world David Shneer 12. Mikvah in Beijing Zhou Xun 13. Aspects of Italy’s Jewish experience, as shaped by local and global factors Ephraim Nissan