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Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present relevant examples from within the Jewish community itself, moving historically from the biblical period to the modern-day State of Israel. Taking a comparative approach while recognizing the particulars of individual instances, authors examine these phenomena from a wide variety of approaches, genres, and media. Interdisciplinary and accessibly written, the articles display a multitude of instances throughout history showing the range of Jewish life in urban settings.

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  1. Cover Page
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  1. 02_Halftitle
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  1. 03_Frontmatter01
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Editor’s Introduction
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  1. Contributors
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  1. Jews in Ancient Civic Life
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  1. Urbanizing Jews: Agriculture, Slave Codes, and the Byzantine Empire
  2. pp. 23-33
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  1. Vienna’s Jewish Community, 1819–1826: Glimpses from Beethoven’s Conversation Books at the Dawn of a New Era
  2. pp. 35-54
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  1. A Tale of Two Cities: Jewish Creativity in Venice and Prague
  2. pp. 55-89
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  1. The Cosmopolitan Jewish City: A Typology
  2. pp. 91-106
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  1. The Social Role of Small Jewish Cultural Centers: The Case of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  2. pp. 107-122
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  1. Jewish Urbanization and the Midsize City: The Case of Kaunas, Lithuania
  2. pp. 123-137
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  1. Kyiv as a Center of Soviet Jewish Culture in the 1920s–1930s
  2. pp. 139-160
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  1. The Yiddish Press in Cleveland
  2. pp. 161-181
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  1. Jews Create Towns: An Examination of the Impact of Joseph Sondheimer on the Creation of Muskogee, Oklahoma
  2. pp. 183-196
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  1. Rescuing that Modest Mansion: The Contributions of Urban Jews to American Historic Preservation
  2. pp. 197-221
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  1. Comicus the Cosmopolite: Diasporic Cosmopolitics and the Promise of the City in Mel Brooks’s History of the World, Part I
  2. pp. 223-237
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  1. City in the Garden, Garden in the City: Clarence Stein, Moshe Safdie, and the Design of Urban Reform
  2. pp. 239-253
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