On the Transcultural Nature of Jewish Periodicals

Starting from the premise that all Jewish periodicals are the material heirs of a unique textual tradition, the authors of this volume -researchers from Germany, Austria, Israel, Belarus, the UK, and the US - have distilled here the fruits of their interactive discussions. Their inquiry sets out to scrutinize the history of the Ashkenazy Jewish press as a history of the visions it advocated. It transcends the conventional approach which focusses on the context of the nation state. Thus, the reader can trace the journey of Jewish periodicals as they migrated seamlessly across national borders and languages, and hence discover geopolitical and generational entanglements that have so far been largely neglected.

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Born 1957; Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Portsmouth; visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies); honorary research fellow at the Centre of Migration, Diaspora and Exile at the University of Central Lancashire (MIDEX).