[URBANTH-L]AAA panel ideas?
Rachel Reynolds
rrr at drexel.edu
Wed Jan 31 06:53:14 EST 2007
Hello All:
I'm working on a panel idea that would involve papers on the Jewish
experience as it is taken up by non-Jewish groups. This is, I think,
especially relevant in urban and immigrant communities, and the concept is
certainly well distributed in academe when we adapt the term "diaspora" to
new immigrant groups and their enclaves. I could perhaps go so far as to
trace a sense of the concept of contemporary "cosmopolitan" or "global
citizen" to the Jewish experience(s) in Europe in the 19th and 20th
Centuries. My contribution would involve the "Jews of Nigeria" -- which is
both a common trope of globalization for Igbo speakers, and a literal
culture group of Nigerian people whose identity is based on efforts to
trace their origins to the lost tribes of Israel.
Is anybody interested in pulling together something with me on this, or a
related sort of topic?
Regards,
Rachel
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Rachel R. Reynolds
Assistant Professor
Director of Graduate Programs
Department of Culture & Communication
Drexel University
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Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 895-0498
rrr at drexel.edu
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