Next Year in Marienbad

Mirjam Zadoff is the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of Werner Scholem: A German Life, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. William Templer is Chief Translator at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, University of Leipzig.

"Next Year in Marienbad offers a fascinatingly erudite glimpse of the joys and sorrows of well-to-do Jews on holiday over a century ago." (The Forward) "A charming, highly readable, and scholarly contribution to the cultural history of the Jewish bourgeoisie of central and eastern Europe. With wit and learning Mirjam Zadoff has elevated Marienbad to the rank of a Jewish 'lieu de mémoire.'" (Saul Friedlander, University of California, Los Angeles) "A rich tale beautifully told, Mirjam Zadoff's evocative study introduces us to the single most important recreational activity for modern Jews in Central Europe: their annual summer pilgrimage to take the waters at their favorite spa resorts. Zadoff's remarkable history of Jewish sociability introduces us to a Chaucerian parade of characters and transports us back to those spas, reanimating for the reader their long-gone social and cultural life and making it clear why Jews so eagerly looked forward to spending next year in Marienbad." (John M. Efron, University of California-Berkeley) "A very engaging, interesting, suggestive, and important book. Next Year in Marienbad deals with three famous international spas and skillfully uses evidence from each of them to paint a broader picture of 'Jewish space' in European life between 1870 and 1938." (Marsha L. Rozenblit, University of Maryland)

• Introduction: The (Mirrored) PlayroomPART I. BE'ERA SHEL MIRYAMChapter 1. A LetterChapter 2. Consuming PlacesChapter 3. In a Large Garden of ModernityChapter 4. Bourgeois Experiential Spaces of Worry and ConcernPART II. BEIT DIMYONIChapter 5. A ConversationChapter 6. MiscountersChapter 7. EncountersPART III. ODRADEKChapter 8. A StoryChapter 9. The City in the HillsChapter 10. Warmbod GrotesquesPART IV. JUTOPIAChapter 11. A MapChapter 12. Traveling to BohemiaChapter 13. To Bohemia and BeyondAfterword: Return to BohemiaList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex