{"product_id":"next-year-in-marienbad-the-lost-worlds-of-jewish-spa-culture-hardback-9780812244663","title":"Next Year in Marienbad; The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture (Hardback) 9780812244663","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNext Year in Marienbad\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMirjam Zadoff (Author), William Templer (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812244663\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 November 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 2 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.662 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNext Year in Marienbad\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fascinatingly erudite glimpse of the joys and sorrows of well-to-do Jews on holiday over a century ago.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/i\u003e) \"A charming, highly readable, and scholarly contribution to the cultural history of the Jewish bourgeoisie of central and eastern Europe. With wit and learning Mirjam Zadoff has elevated Marienbad to the rank of a Jewish 'lieu de mémoire.'\" (Saul Friedlander, University of California, Los Angeles) \"A rich tale beautifully told, Mirjam Zadoff's evocative study introduces us to the single most important recreational activity for modern Jews in Central Europe: their annual summer pilgrimage to take the waters at their favorite spa resorts. Zadoff's remarkable history of Jewish sociability introduces us to a Chaucerian parade of characters and transports us back to those spas, reanimating for the reader their long-gone social and cultural life and making it clear why Jews so eagerly looked forward to spending next year in Marienbad.\" (John M. Efron, University of California-Berkeley) \"A very engaging, interesting, suggestive, and important book. Next Year in Marienbad deals with three famous international spas and skillfully uses evidence from each of them to paint a broader picture of 'Jewish space' in European life between 1870 and 1938.\" (Marsha L. Rozenblit, University of Maryland)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to \"take a cure\"-to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be treated by the latest X-ray, light, or gas therapies, or simply enjoy the respite afforded by elegant parks and comfortable lodgings. These were sociable and urbane places, settings for celebrity sightings, match-making, and stylish promenading. Originally the haunt of aristocrats, the spa towns came to be the favored summer resorts for the emerging bourgeoisie. Among the many who traveled there, a very high proportion were Jewish.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNext Year in Marienbad\u003c\/i\u003e, Mirjam Zadoff writes the social and cultural history of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad as Jewish spaces. Secular and religious Jews from diverse national, cultural, and social backgrounds mingled in idyllic and often apolitical-seeming surroundings. During the season, shops sold Yiddish and Hebrew newspapers, kosher kitchens were opened, and theatrical presentations, concerts, and public readings catered to the Jewish clientele. Yet these same resorts were situated in a region of growing hostile nationalisms, and they were towns that might turn virulently anti-Semitic in the off season.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNext Year in Marienbad\u003c\/i\u003e draws from memoirs and letters, newspapers and maps, novels and postcards to create a compelling and engaging portrait of Jewish presence and cultural production in the years between the \u003ci\u003efin de siÈcle\u003c\/i\u003e and the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The (Mirrored) Playroom\u003cbr\u003e PART I. BE'ERA SHEL MIRYAM\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. A Letter\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Consuming Places\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. In a Large Garden of Modernity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Bourgeois Experiential Spaces of Worry and Concern\u003cbr\u003e PART II. BEIT DIMYONI\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. A Conversation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Miscounters\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Encounters\u003cbr\u003e PART III. ODRADEK\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. A Story\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The City in the Hills\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Warmbod Grotesques\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. JUTOPIA\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. A Map\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Traveling to Bohemia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. To Bohemia and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Return to Bohemia\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555716854040,"sku":"9780812244663","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/next-year-in-marienbad-the-lost-worlds-of-jewish-spa-culture-hardback-9780812244663","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}