LEADER 03940cam a2200469 i 4500001 278241 005 20240621234625.0 008 210322s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2017034136 020 9781479827893 |q(hardcover) 020 1479827894 |q(hardcover) 024 8 40028196875 035 (OCoLC)ocn994287640 035 278241 042 pcc 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dYDX |dBDX |dOCLCQ |dHUC |dYDX |dOCLCO |dSTF |dJ9U |dBKL |dOCLCF |dYUS |dCHVBK |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dTWJ |dUKMGB |dOCLCA |dOCLCQ |dOCLCA |dLHM 050 00 DS112 |b.P64 2018 100 1 Pinsker, Shachar, |eauthor. 245 12 A rich brew : |bhow cafés created modern Jewish culture / |cShachar M. Pinsker. 264 1 New York : |bNew York University Press, |c[2018] 300 ix, 371 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 A note on transliteration and translation -- Introduction: The Silk Road of modern Jewish creativity -- Odessa: Jewish sages, Luftmenshen, gangsters, and the Odessit in the café -- Warsaw: between Kotik's Café and the Ziemiańska -- Vienna: the "Matzo Island" and the functioning myths of the Viennese café -- Berlin: from the Gelehrtes Kaffeehaus to the Romanisches Café -- New York City: kibitzing in the cafés of the New World -- Tel Aviv-Jaffa: the "First Hebrew City" or a city of many cafés? -- Conclusion: Closing time. 520 "Unlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center, or the Jewish deli, the café is rarely considered a Jewish space. Yet, coffeehouses profoundly influenced the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. With roots stemming from the Ottoman Empire, the coffeehouse and its drinks gained increasing popularity in Europe. The "otherness," and the mix of the national and transnational characteristics of the coffeehouse perhaps explains why many of these cafés were owned by Jews, why Jews became their most devoted habitués, and how cafés acquired associations with Jewishness. Examining the convergence of cafés, their urban milieu, and Jewish creativity, Shachar M. Pinsker argues that cafés anchored a silk road of modern Jewish culture. He uncovers a network of interconnected cafés that were central to the modern Jewish experience in a time of migration and urbanization, from Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, and Berlin to New York City and Tel Aviv. A Rich Brew explores the Jewish culture created in these social spaces, drawing on a vivid collection of newspaper articles, memoirs, archival documents, photographs, caricatures, and artwork, as well as stories, novels, and poems in many languages set in cafés. Pinsker shows how Jewish modernity was born in the café, nourished, and sent out into the world by way of print, politics, literature, art, and theater. What was experienced and created in the space of the coffeehouse touched thousands who read, saw, and imbibed a modern culture that redefined what it meant to be a Jew in the world"--Front flap. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Jews |xSocial life and customs |y19th century. 650 0 Jews |xSocial life and customs |y20th century. 650 0 Jews |xIntellectual life |y19th century. 650 0 Jews |xIntellectual life |y20th century. 650 0 Coffeehouses |xSocial aspects. 650 7 Jews |xIntellectual life. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983287 650 7 Jews |xSocial life and customs. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983364 650 7 Kultur. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4125698-0 650 7 Juden. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4028808-0 650 7 Kaffeehaus. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4029194-7 648 7 1800-1999 |2fast 852 0 |bscstacks |hDS112 |i.P64 2018