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Volume 42

Austrian and Habsburg Studies

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Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation

Encounters in Spa Towns and Resorts

Edited by Susanne Korbel and Michael L. Miller

Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

402 pages, 42 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80758-132-9 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (December 2026)


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“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

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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.

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”.

Michael L. Miller is an associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies and Academic Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (2011) and other works on Habsburg and Habsburg-Jewish history. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Manovill: A Tale of Two Hungarys.

Subject: Jewish StudiesHistory: 20th Century to Present
Area: Europe

Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation Edited by Susanne Korbel and Michael L. Miller is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

OA ISBN: 978-1-80758-134-3



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