Jewish History and Culture Beyond Borders

Maja Hultman is Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the author of Jewish Feelings in the City: Emotional Topographies and Power Relations in Modern Stockholm (forthcoming) and the co-editor, along with Joachim Schlör, of Virtual and Real-Life Spaces of Jewish Europe in the 21st Century (2025). Susanne Korbel is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Graz, Austria. She is the author of Auf die Tour! Jüdinnen und Juden in Singspielhalle, Kabarett und Varieté – Zwischen Habsburgermonarchie und Amerika (2021) and the co-editor, along with Philipp Strobl, of Mediations through Exile: Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror (2022).Claire Le Foll is Professor of East European Jewish History and Culture at University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of three monographs, including La Biélorussie dans l’histoire et l’imaginaire des Juifs de l’empire russe, 1772-1905 (2017).Johanna Rolshoven is Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology at University of Graz, Austria. She is the author and editor of several books in German, including Stadtforschung als Gesellschaftsforschung. Eine Einführung in die Kulturanalyse der Stadt (2021).

The Festschrift is crucial to any understanding of discussions in the field of Jewish Studies. Building on Joachim Schlör’s innovative scholarship, the volume makes a substantial contribution to the fields of Jewish Studies, Digital Humanities, urban studies, and the history of emotions.

• List of IllustrationsList of Contributors Introduction. ‘The journey has not yet come to an end’: The Schlörian Approach to Jewish History and Culture, Maja Hultman, Susanne Korbel, Claire Le Foll, Johanna RolshovenPART I: Migration1. ‘I felt myself transported to a World of which I had read, but one of which until then I had really never had knowledge’: Fact-Finding Missions to Eastern Europe on the eve of World War 2, Jan Lánícek2. ‘... and now we continue via Milan and Venice to Trieste. The ship is waiting there!’. Trieste as gateway to the maritime world and a space of transit for German-Jewish travellers, migrants, and refugees, 1920–1945, Björn Siegel3. A Tapestry of Resilience: Navigating Swiss Migration Policy, Intellectual Bonds, and Interfaith Friendships in Turbulent Times, Stefanie Mahrer4. Did a German Jewish Diaspora Exist? Transnational Experiences or Transnational Methods: the examples of Aufbau and Jüdische Allgemeine, Marie BehrendtPART II: Beyond Urban Spaces5. Make a Night of It: Nights in the Big City and feminist nocturnal histories of emotions, Cigdem Talu6. Paper City. Jewish Textual Strategies in Nazi Berlin, Tobias Metzler7. Figurations of female transversality: Germaine Krull, Isabelle Eberhardt and the anonymous street dweller, Johanna Rolshoven8. Migrants in an English Third Space and Rural Heterotopia, Tony KushnerPART III: Storages of culture9. Migrating objects and their containers: Reflections on European Jewish refugees’ arrival in the United States, Susanne Korbel10. The Huppah as Cultural Baggage, Simon J. Bronner11. Aspects of Aymmetry in Visual Stereotypes, Amos Morris-Reich12. An Ethnography of the Briefcase: Tracing Post-Holocaust Experiences in a Business Archive, Maja Hultman and Benito Peix GeldartIndex