Navigating Transnational Modes of Jewishness in 20th Century America

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

This panel brings together 3 papers that examine the effects of transnational commitments, ideologies, and ways of thinking on American Jews. Collectively, these papers explore how American Jews told stories about their relationships to place and space, about how American Jews pursued interests abroad, and how American Jewish subjects conceived of themselves in transnational terms.

Sub Unit

• Modern Jewish History in the Americas

Chair

• Shari Rabin, Oberlin College

Individual Presentations

• Hungary, New York, Detoit: The Transatlantic Odyssey of Elsie Kohut Sulzberger - Howard Lupovitch, Wayne State University

• Narrative maps and Jewish geography: A discussion of place in North American Yiddish migrant personal narratives - Vardit Lightstone

• The Battle for the Religious Affiliation of Indian Jewry, 1959-1960 - Benjamin Steiner, Trinity College

Zoom Host

• Zoom Host 01