Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition

Catherine Bartlett has a double-award PhD (2017) from the University of Kent (UK) and the University of Strasbourg (France) in Comparative Literature (French, German, English). She also has two BAs in German and Norwegian from Paris IV-La Sorbonne, as well as a Master’s degree in Germanic studies from the University of Strasbourg. Her research interests are nineteenth-century Jewish European literature and art. At present, she teaches French at the University of Surrey.Joachim Schlör, Ph.D. (1990), University of Southampton, is Professor of modern Jewish/non-Jewish relations at that university. He has published several monographs on urban history and the cultures of migration, including most recently Escaping Nazi Germany. One Woman’s Emigration from Heilbronn to England (Bloomsbury, 2020).

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionCatherine Bartlett2 “The Penitents”: Attitudes of Jewish Society to Marranos in Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century SafedEyal Davidson3 The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem: A Borderline CaseMichael T. Miller4 Rights of the Stranger in Jewish Moral: Reactions to M. Lazarus’ Ethics of Judaism in Imperial GermanyMathias Berek5 The Origins of the Stranger: Georg Simmel’s “The Stranger,” Moritz Lazarus’ “Was Heisst National?” and the Jewish Question of the Fin-de-Siècle PeriodSøren Blak Hjortshøj6 The Jewish Stranger in Germany and AmericaChad Alan Goldberg7 (Friendly) Strangers in Their Own Land No More: Third-Generation Jews and Socio-Political Activism in the Present in GermanyDani Kranz8 “They Are Not My People”: Mysticism and Political Extremism in Henry Bean’s Script The Believer (2001)Federico Dal Bo9 Between Language and Ethnicity: Russian Jewish Writers in the Post-Soviet World, the Question of Self-Identification in Literature and LifeOlga Tabachnikova10 Jews as Strangers, Strangers as Jews in the Twentieth-Century French NovelMaxime Decout11 Exorcizing the Stranger: The “Daughter of Germany” in the Contemporary Jewish ImaginationEfraim Sicher12 Muslims as Brothers or Strangers? French Jewish Thinkers Confront the Moral Dilemmas of the French-Algerian WarEthan B. Katz13 The Christian Orphan as the Stranger in Nineteenth-Century European Jewish FictionCatherine Bartlett14 The Strange Face and Form of the Stranger in LevinasBenda Hofmeyr15 Conclusion: Jews and Strangers. Perspective from HistoryJoachim SchlörIndex