The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition

Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as ＂strangers.＂ In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of ＂the stranger＂ can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way.

Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.

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).