On the Move: Travel, Migration, and Modern Jewish LIteratures

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

Jewish Studies scholarship has often explored how the United States became a crucial world center for Jews and Jewish culture in the 20th century, while recent research in the field of world literature has emphasized the global influence of America as a center for publishing and cultural production. This panel is situated at the intersection of those two scholarly fields. The four papers examine a variety of ways in which the U.S. functioned within global Jewish cultural production, in sites including Egypt, Eastern Europe, Israel.

Sub Unit

• Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

Chair

• Justin Daniel Cammy, Smith College

Individual Presentations

• America, Land of the Pilgrim Jews: The Typological Encounters of the Immigration Era - Joshua Logan Wall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Egypt, Egyptian Jews, and the Embodiment of Memory - Aimee Israel-Pelletier, University of Texas at Arlington

• The Marvelous in the Work of Three Yiddish Travel Writers - Jack Kugelmass, University of Florida

• Jewish-American Literature Makes Aliya? Negotiating Collective Borders in the Israeli Literary Discourse - Omri Asscher, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev