Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation

Susanne Korbel is principal investigator of the Austrian Science Funds Project “Entanglements of Jews and non-Jews in Private Spaces” (FWF ESP120) at the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz, and research fellow at the Central European University Vienna. She is the author of Auf die Tour! Jüdinnen und Juden in Singspielhalle, Kabarett und Varieté zwischen Habsburgermonarchie und Amerika um 1900 (2021) and the Leo Baeck Essay Price winning article “Spaces of Gendered Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters: Bed Lodgers, Domestic Workers, And Sex Workers in Vienna, 1900–1930”.

“This is a superb collection of essays, which taken together provide multiple perspectives on a crucial but understudied topic in Jewish and Central European history and culture.” • Paul Lerner, University of Southern California

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Close Encounters in Spa Towns and ResortsSusanne Korbel and Michael L. MillerPart I: Dangerous LiaisonsChapter 1. Away for a Health Cure: Jewish Visitors at Central European Spas at the Beginning of the Modern EraNatalie Naimark-GoldbergChapter 2. Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Jews and Non-Jews in Hungarian SpasMiklós KonrádChapter 3. Scandal at Szárszó: Morality, Modesty, and “Jewish” Mores in Interwar HungaryMichael L. MillerChapter 4. From Romance to Exclusion: Everyday Encounters Between Jewish Women and Non-Jews at Austrian Spas and Resorts, 1890–1914Alison RoseChapter 5. Romance, Recreation, and Resentments: Travels of Austrian Jewish Families to Sommerfrische DestinationsSusanne KorbelPart II: (Pan)European HeterotopiasChapter 6. European Nostalgia: Young Tel-Aviv as a Seaside ResortStephanie RotemChapter 7. The Resorts of David Vogel: European Heterotopias of Rest and Recreation in the Hebrew Author’s Novellas Facing the Sea and In the SanatoriumJudith MüllerChapter 8. Health, Hygiene, and Summer Fun: OZE/TOZ’s Summer Colonies and Jewish Medical Autonomism, 1918–1938Ethell GershengorinChapter 9. The Novaks, the Neustadtels, the Zweigs: Jewish Tourists as Strangers and Locals in Velden am Wörthersee around 1900Dieter J. HechtChapter 10. From New York to Nałęczów and Kuzmir: Reconstructing Yankev Glatstein’s Visit to Poland in the Summer of 1934Monika Adamczyk-GarbowskaPart III: Spa AntisemitismChapter 11. The Myth of the Carlsbad Idyll: Antisemitism in West Bohemian SpasEva JanáčováChapter 12. Discrimination by Design: Hotel Architecture, Jews, and the Canadian CountrysideShelley HornsteinChapter 13. ‘We See the Faces of Gentiles Full of Hatred’: The Orthodox Jewish Encounter with Non-Jewish Space and Society in Post-World War II Alpine Resort TownsBrett LeviPart IV: In Search of Things PastChapter 14. Archive of Silence: The Painter Charlotte Lichtblau – Altaussee / Austria – Vienna and New YorkAlbert LichtblauChapter 15. Those Who “Stayed” (and One Who Came Back): On Visiting the Jewish Cemetery in Merano, ItalyRuth Ellen GruberEpilogue: Enduring Afterlives of Fin-de-Siècle Jewish Spa CultureSusanne Korbel and Michael L. MillerBibliographyIndex