Jews and Urban Life

Acknowledgments
Editor’s Introduction
Contributors
Jews in Ancient Civic Life, by Gary Gilbert
Urbanizing Jews: Agriculture, Slave Codes, and the Byzantine Empire, by Anthony Meyer
Vienna’s Jewish Community, 1819–1826: Glimpses from Beethoven’s Conversation Books at the Dawn of a New Era, by Theodore Albrecht
A Tale of Two Cities: Jewish Creativity in Venice and Prague, by Ori Z. Soltes
The Cosmopolitan Jewish City: A Typology, by Alan Levenson
The Social Role of Small Jewish Cultural Centers:
The Case of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Menachem Keren-Kratz
Jewish Urbanization and the Midsize City: The Case of Kaunas, Lithuania, by Motti Zalkin
Kyiv as a Center of Soviet Jewish Culture in the 1920s–1930s, by Victoria Khiterer
The Yiddish Press in Cleveland, by Sean Martin
Jews Create Towns: An Examination of the Impact of Joseph Sondheimer on the Creation of Muskogee, Oklahoma, by Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
Rescuing that Modest Mansion: The Contributions of Urban Jews to American Historic Preservation, by Barry L. Stiefel
Comicus the Cosmopolite: Diasporic Cosmopolitics and the Promise of the City in Mel Brooks’s History of the World, Part I, by David J. Peterson and Joan Latchaw
City in the Garden, Garden in the City: Clarence Stein, Moshe Safdie, and the Design of Urban Reform, by Martin H. Shukert