Collection
European Virtual Jewish Spaces
Guest editors
Dr Maja Hultman, University of Gothenburg
Professor Joachim Schlör, University of Southampton
Amidst the current revival of academic, cultural and civil interest in the notion of “Jewish Europe”, this special issue aims to explore the development, role, influence and shape of virtual spaces in different forms related to contemporary European Jewry. How are digital practices related to real-life practices and spaces remembered, performed or inhabited by Europe’s Jewry? What do virtual spaces reveal about Jewish engagement with their geographical locations and the non-Jewish surroundings? And, ultimately, what do virtual spaces tell us about the existence and future of a “Jewish Europe”?
Editors
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Maja Hultman
Maja Hultman is a postdoctoral researcher at Centre for European Research and the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg. She received her PhD from University of Southampton in 2019, has held fellowships at Centre for Business History in Stockholm and Leibniz-Institute of European History in Mainz, and is a member of the HEBE (Histories of Emotion in the Built Environment) research network. She is currently working on her first monograph, Jewish Feelings in the City: Emotional Topographies and Power Relations in Modern Stockholm. maja.hultman@gu.se
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Joachim Schlör
Joachim Schlör is Professor (emeritus) for modern Jewish/non-Jewish relations and a member of the Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton. He received his PhD from Tübingen University in 1990 and his habilitation from Potsdam University in 2003. His research interests include the cultural history and the ethnography of migration and mobility, of urban life, and the reflection of history in the individual experience. In 2020, he published the English translation of his book on Baroness Julia Neuberger’s mother, Liesel Rosenthal, who came to Britain in 1937: Escaping Nazi Germany. j.schloer@soton.ac.uk
