ISBN:
9783631646120
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (222 p)
Series Statement:
Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory v.6
Parallel Title:
Print version Jews and Non-Jews: Memories and Interactions from the Perspective of Cultural Studies
DDC:
305.8924
Keywords:
Jews -- Identity -- History -- 20th century
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Jews -- Identity -- History -- 21st century
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Jewish literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century
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Jewish literature -- History and criticism -- 21st century
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Collective memory
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The book adds new studies of memories and interactions between Jews and non-Jews to the historical and cultural research on this topic. It gathers in one volume the results of work by scholars from several countries, while the topics of the articles cover various disciplines: history, sociology, psychology, literary and language studies. The specific themes refer to the cultures and interactions with non-Jews in places such as Kiev, Vienna, Ireland, Springfield, Sosúa as well as reflect upon interactions in literary texts by Czesław Milosz and other Polish writers, some contemporary Jewish-Ame
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; Kiev Jews in the Early Twentieth Century: National Identity and Culture (Victoria Khiterer); Sholom Aleichem; Other Kiev Jewish Writers and Poets; The War of Jewish Languages; Jewish Artists; Jews in Popular Culture in Kiev; Conclusion; Works Cited; Viennese Culture in 1900: Bridging the Divide (Klaus Hödl); Going beyond the acculturation/assimilation narrative; The problem with Jewishness as an analytical category; Benefits of research on Jews in popular culture; (A) Insight into Jewish everyday life
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(B) The overlapping of high and popular culture(C) Specifics of Viennese Jewry; Summary; Works Cited; Ireland's Jewish Identity Crisis (Natalie Wynn) ; Irish Jewry: A Brief Historical Context; Jews and the Irish National Narrative; Assessments of the Jewish Experience in Ireland; Defining Irish-Jewish Identity; Conclusions; Works Cited; The Community Memory of Springfield, Missouri Suppresses the City's Jewish Past (Mara W. Cohen Ioannides); Works Cited; Jewminicanos and the Sosúa Settlement (Anna Maria Karczewska); Works Cited
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Stereotyping through Silence and Speech. Cross-cultural Differences in the Conversational Styles of Poles and Jews as Presented in Polish Literature Introduction (Hanna Komorowska)Introduction; Conversational styles and their components; Silence and speech in conversational styles as sources of stereotyping. The role of psychological and sociological attributions; Polish and Jewish conversational styles as presented in Polish literature; Conclusion. Polish and Jewish conversational styles as presented in Polish literature vis-à vis cross-culturally identified styles; Works Cited
Description / Table of Contents:
No Longer Other? Jews in Czesław Miłosz's Landscape (Annette Aronowicz)Jews in Lithuania; The Metaphysical Significance of the Jews; Critical Reflections; Works Cited; Manifestations of Jewishness in Literature of Latin America (Magdalena Szkwarek); Introduction; Latin American Jewish Literature; Alberto Gerchunoff; Jorge Luis Borges; A Jewish Prostitute; Mario Vargas Llosa; Alvaro Mutis; Conclusion; Works Cited; Temptations of Non-Jewish Lifestyle in Allegra Goodman's and Pearl Abraham's Novels (Dorota Mihułka); Works Cited
Description / Table of Contents:
"False Veins Under the Skin": Does Edward Lewis Wallant's The Pawnbroker Fail as Holocaust Fiction? (Jacek Partyka)I.; II.; III.; Works Cited; The Feelings of Survivors of the First Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto (Maria Ferenc Piotrowska); Sources and methods used; Definition of family; Theoretical background; Analysis; Conclusions; Works Cited; The Mother-Daughter Dyad in Bożena Keff's On Mother and the Fatherland (Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk); Works Cited; A Quest for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland: Agata Tuszyńska's Family History (Justyna Sierakowska); Works Cited
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Normalization through Literature: Translations from German into Hebrew during the 1970s (Na'ama Sheffi)
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