ISBN:
9780812291032
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (336 p)
Series Statement:
Jewish Culture and Contexts
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture Front : Representing Jews in Eastern Europe
DDC:
891.8098924
Keywords:
Jews Civilization
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Jews in literature
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East European literature Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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East European literature ; Jewish authors ; History and criticism
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Europe, Eastern ; Civilization
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Jews ; Europe, Eastern ; Civilization
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Jews in literature
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Slavic countries ; Civilization ; Jewish influences
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Electronic books
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Europe, Eastern Civilization
;
Slavic countries Civilization
;
Jewish influences
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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