Homelands and diasporas
Subtitle: perspectives on Jewish culture in the Mediterranean and beyond
By: edited by Dario Micccoli, Marcella Simoni and Giorgia Foscarini
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781527507838
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Jewish diaspora; Jews; Civilization; Miscellanea
Description: The volume brings together a collection of essays on Jewish-related subjects to celebrate Emanuela Trevisan Semi's career and research authored by some former students, friends and colleagues on the occasion of her retirement. Drawing upon the many academic interests and research of Trevisan Semi, one of the most important European scholars of Jewish and Israel Studies, the volume discusses the diversity of Jewish culture both in the diaspora and in Israel. The contributors here wrote their pieces understanding Jewish culture as inscribed in a set of different, yet interrelated, homelands and diasporas, depending on the time and space we refer to, and what this means for communities and individuals living in places as different as West Africa, Poland, Morocco, and Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. At the same time, they discuss the notion of diaspora as being crucial in the formation of the Jewish cultural identity both before and after the birth of the State of Israel. --
Notes: A festschrift for Emanuela Trevisan Semi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and Italian.
Table of contents: title: Contributors; title: Introduction / Dario Miccoli, Marcella Simoni and Giorgia Foscarini; title: Part I-Essays : Chapter One. No Witness to Bear? The Settlement of Jews along the West Coast of Africa / Tudor Parfitt; title: Chapter Two. Ermias Essayas: A 'Forgotten' Ethiopian Jew in Jerusalem / Shalva Weil; title: Chapter Three. From Synagogue to Mosque: My Grandfather's House in the Old Mellah of Meknès / Yolande Cohen and Noureddine Harrami; title: Chapter Four. Jewish Memories and Space in South Eastern Poland: The Case of Brama Grodzka-NN Theatre and Heritage Centre / Giorgia Foscarini; title: Chapter Five. "Because our path has no end": Diaspora and Land of Israel in the Novels of Haim Sabato / Dario Miccoli; title: Chapter Six. Frontlines between Religion and Laicity in the Jewish State Ilan Greilsammer; title: Chapter Seven. Playing with History: Toys in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s / Marcella Simoni; title: Chapter Eight. Why is is Difficult for the Israelis to Make Peace with the Palestinians? Uncivil Society and New War in Contemporary Israel / Uri Ben-Eliezer; title: Chapter Nine. Recognising (In)justice: Policies and Identities in Beer Sheva Oren Yiftachel with the collaboration of Ravit Goldhaber and Roy Nuriel; title: Part II-Testimonies : Giampiero Bellingeri; title: Elisa Bianchi; title: Rosa Caroli and Antonio Trampus; title: Elena Chiti; title: Paola Gandolfi; title: Fabrizio Lelli; title: Davide Mano; title: Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault; title: Monica Miniati; title: Piera Rossetto; title: Alvise Vianello; title: Ida Zilio-Grandi; title: Part III-The Crop : Publications of Emanuela Trevisan Semi, 1970-2018.