Migration in Jewish Imagination and Experience

Edited By: Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, Natalie Wynn

£70.99

Migration has been a defining element of Jewish life for centuries, becoming the subject of a rich mythology. This volume’s essays interrogate these mythologized narratives, exploring the diverse yet similar “realities” they represent and reveal about the needs of the present.

Migration has been a central, defining element of Jewish life since Antiquity. Over the centuries, it has become the subject of a rich and diverse…

Migration has been a central, defining element of Jewish life since Antiquity. Over the centuries, it has become the subject of a rich and diverse mythology that re-imagines and re-interprets the movements of Jews across time and space in the past – whether distant or recent – according to the needs and concerns of the present. This volume considers the mythology of Jewish migration as a phenomenon in its own right, that reflects themes, concerns, and historical “realities” common to many Jewish communities. Employing methodologies from the fields of history, literary and cultural studies, and sociology, the essays interrogate mythologized narratives of Jewish migration drawn from a range of settings, exploring the diverse, yet often surprisingly similar “realities” that they represent.

Mara W. Cohen Ioannides is Emerita Faculty at Missouri State University, USA, and President of both the Midwest Jewish Studies Association and the Ozarks Studies Association. Her work is about the American Jewish experience both historically and through literature. She has published numerous book chapters and articles about everything from song lyrics to memoirs. Her most recent book is Jews of Missouri: An Ornament to Israel (2022).

Natalie Wynn is a Research Associate of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religions and Culture, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, specializing in Irish Jewish history, historiography, identity, and experience from the nineteenth century to the present day. She is the author of Community, Identity Conflict: The Jewish Experience in Ireland, 1881-1914 (2024) and co-editor of two essay collections on Irish Jewish history.

Bryan Edward Stone, Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, Michele Migliori, Vladimir Levin, Sue Vice, Dani Kranz, David M. K. Sheinin, Ann Berezin, Verena Hanna, Natalie Wynn, Jonah Greene, Nicola Woodhead