Culture front : representing Jews in Eastern Europe
Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
2014
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Jewish Culture and Contexts
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| Schlagworte: | Jews Jews in literature East European literature East European literature ; Jewish authors ; History and criticism Europe, Eastern ; Civilization Jews ; Europe, Eastern ; Civilization Slavic countries ; Civilization ; Jewish influences Electronic books |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (336 p) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere. Introduction: A New Look at East European Jewish Culture -- PART I. VIOLENCE AND CIVILITY -- 1. Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648-1649 and the Creation of a Polish-Jewish Consciousness -- 2. ''Civil Christians'': Debates on the Reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789-1830 -- PART II. MIRRORS OF POPULAR CULTURE -- 3. The Botched Kiss and the Beginnings of the Yiddish Stag -- 4. The Polish Popular Novel and Jewish Modernization at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries -- 5. Cul-de-Sac: The ''Inner Life of Jews'' on the Fin-de-Siècle Polish Stage -- PART III. POLITICS AND AESTHETICS -- 6. Yosef Haim Brenner, the ''Half-Intelligentsia,'' and Russian-Jewish Politics, 1899-1908 -- 7. Recreating Jewish Identity in Haim Nahman Bialik's Poems: The Russian Context -- 8. Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917-1919 -- 9. Beyond the Purim-shpil: Reinventing the Scroll of Esther in Modern Yiddish Poems -- PART IV. MEMORY PROJECTS -- 10. Revealing and Concealing the Soviet Jewish Self: The Desk-Drawer Memoirs of Meir Viner -- 11. The Shtetl Subjunctive: Yaffa Eliach's Living History Museum -- List of Contributors -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | Online-Ressource (336 p) |
| ISBN: | 9780812291032 0812291034 9780812240559 0812240553 |