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- Title
Away from Home: Travelling and Leisure Activities among German Jews in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries*.
- Authors
Zinger, Nimrod
- Abstract
The article discusses Jewish travelers and their leisure activities in the early modern German states and principalities. According to the author, as travelers Jews were largely freed from the social control they experienced in their communities and were sometimes able to transgress social, religions, and gender boundaries. Details on Jewish religious attitudes towards leisure are presented. It is suggested that while short, low-cost recreational walks or tours were seen as more permissible than extended travel, this type of leisure activity was still considered morally dangerous by some religious authorities. Topics discussed include modes of transportation in 17th-and 18th-century Germany, sleeping arrangements for travelers, and travelers' engagement in drinking, gambling, and sex.
- Subjects
GERMANY; JEWISH travelers; HISTORY of travel; HISTORY of German Jews; LEISURE; GERMAN history; HISTORY of transportation; TRAVELER attitudes; JEWISH ethics; RELIGION
- Publication
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 2011, Vol 56, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0075-8744
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/leobaeck/ybr015