Eli Rosenblatt
Drew University, Graduate Division of Religion, Faculty Member
This dissertation argues for a new model of continuity-offered by the Jewish travel narrative form-to explain the appearance of race and racism in the literary history of Ashkenazi Jews. The ascendance of emigration in its heyday... more
This dissertation argues for a new model of continuity-offered by the Jewish travel narrative form-to explain the appearance of race and racism in the literary history of Ashkenazi Jews. The ascendance of emigration in its heyday invigorated a new social order that derived its legitimacy from entirely different ways of conceptualizing Jewish identity-from a structured, territorialized Yiddishkayt of rabbinic authority, ritual observance, and the vernacular to a more ethereal Ashkenazi individuality embedded in the colonial and racial contingencies of the Atlantic world.
