The City of Worms in Modern Jewish Traveling Cultures of Remembrance

placement, and change.Jews' urbanization and cultural and religious renewal have signaled their departure from traditional social relations and relocation to larger urban centers. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Jews migrated in Germany from rural areas and small towns to the larger cities as part of their social advancement. Their experience of dislocation coincided with the proliferation of traveling as a leisure activity, and visits to smaller towns like Worms became fairly common among German Jews. Memories as well as extended family networks continued to connect urban Jews with their former hometowns.' Beyond existing kinship ties, the experience of migration and modernization created a culture of nostalgia forJews that secured the importance of smaller communities, which were otherwise dwarfed by the large urban Jewish centers in Germany. In as much asJews moved out of theJudengasse (Jewish alley) and away from small and rural areas, they recalled a past that was quickly vanishing.2 The presence of physical markers gave legitimacy and force to the creation of traditions.3 In Worms, the physical perseverance of the synagogue, the cemetery, and religious artifacts and historical documents anchored remembrance and, thereby, bestowed continuity upon the

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