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From Marienbad in today’s Czech Republic to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, spas and summer resorts have long been part of modern Jewish life. Jewish visitors helped shape these places into cosmopolitan spaces where unexpected encounters could occur. These spaces brought together both Jews and non-Jews, and Jews from diverse backgrounds with different beliefs and traditions, to meet, socialize, occasionally clash, and often exchange ideas. Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation visits these vibrant centers of social life, where visitors mingled and flirted with locals and fellow travelers, enjoyed leisure activities, and spent time with (or without) family.
“This is a superb collection of essays, which taken together provide multiple perspectives on a crucial but understudied topic in Jewish and Central European history and culture.” • Paul Lerner, University of Southern California
Susanne Korbel is principal investigator of the Austrian Science Funds Project “Entanglements of Jews and non-Jews in Private Spaces” (FWF ESP120) at the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz, and research fellow at the Central European University Vienna. She is the author of Auf die Tour! Jüdinnen und Juden in Singspielhalle, Kabarett und Varieté zwischen Habsburgermonarchie und Amerika um 1900 (2021) and the Leo Baeck Essay Price winning article “Spaces of Gendered Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters: Bed Lodgers, Domestic Workers, And Sex Workers in Vienna, 1900–1930”.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Close Encounters in Spa Towns and Resorts
Susanne Korbel and Michael L. Miller
Part I: Dangerous Liaisons
Chapter 1. Away for a Health Cure: Jewish Visitors at Central European Spas at the Beginning of the Modern Era
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
Chapter 2. Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Jews and Non-Jews in Hungarian Spas
Miklós Konrád
Chapter 3. Scandal at Szárszó: Morality, Modesty, and “Jewish” Mores in Interwar Hungary
Michael L. Miller
Chapter 4. From Romance to Exclusion: Everyday Encounters Between Jewish Women and Non-Jews at Austrian Spas and Resorts, 1890–1914
Alison Rose
Chapter 5. Romance, Recreation, and Resentments: Travels of Austrian Jewish Families to Sommerfrische Destinations
Susanne Korbel
Part II: (Pan)European Heterotopias
Chapter 6. European Nostalgia: Young Tel-Aviv as a Seaside Resort
Stephanie Rotem
Chapter 7. The Resorts of David Vogel: European Heterotopias of Rest and Recreation in the Hebrew Author’s Novellas Facing the Sea and In the Sanatorium
Judith Müller
Chapter 8. Health, Hygiene, and Summer Fun: OZE/TOZ’s Summer Colonies and Jewish Medical Autonomism, 1918–1938
Ethell Gershengorin
Chapter 9. The Novaks, the Neustadtels, the Zweigs: Jewish Tourists as Strangers and Locals in Velden am Wörthersee around 1900
Dieter J. Hecht
Chapter 10. From New York to Nałęczów and Kuzmir: Reconstructing Yankev Glatstein’s Visit to Poland in the Summer of 1934
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
Part III: Spa Antisemitism
Chapter 11. The Myth of the Carlsbad Idyll: Antisemitism in West Bohemian Spas
Eva Janáčová
Chapter 12. Discrimination by Design: Hotel Architecture, Jews, and the Canadian Countryside
Shelley Hornstein
Chapter 13. ‘We See the Faces of Gentiles Full of Hatred’: The Orthodox Jewish Encounter with Non-Jewish Space and Society in Post-World War II Alpine Resort Towns
Brett Levi
Part IV: In Search of Things Past
Chapter 14. Archive of Silence: The Painter Charlotte Lichtblau – Altaussee / Austria – Vienna and New York
Albert Lichtblau
Chapter 15. Those Who “Stayed” (and One Who Came Back): On Visiting the Jewish Cemetery in Merano, Italy
Ruth Ellen Gruber
Epilogue: Enduring Afterlives of Fin-de-Siècle Jewish Spa Culture
Susanne Korbel and Michael L. Miller
Bibliography
Index