ISBN:
9780253019646
,
0253019648
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (426 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
DDC:
305.892/4047
Keywords:
Jews Congresses. Social life and customs
;
Jews Congresses. Social life and customs
;
Jewish folklorists Congresses.
;
Folk literature, Yiddish Congresses.
;
Jewish folk literature Congresses.
;
Ethnology Congresses.
;
Europe, Eastern Congresses. Ethnic relations
;
Electronic books.
;
Konferenzschrift 2013
Abstract:
With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Names; Introduction; Part 1. Reinventing the "Jews" in Ethnographic Writing; 1. The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania / Liliane Weissberg; 2. Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S. J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg / Sylvia Jaworski; 3. The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" / Andreas Kilcher; 4. Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" / Jordan Finkin
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 2. Seeing, Hearing, and Reading Jews5. Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy / Gabriella Safran; 6. Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930) / Annette Werberger; 7. Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Leon Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss / Galit Hasan-Rokem; 8. Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das ostjüdische Antlitz (1920) / Eva Edelmann-Ohler
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Avant-Garde Authenticity: M. Vorobeichic's Photographic Modernism and the East European Jew / Samuel SpinnerPart 3. Spaces of Jewish Ethnography Between Diaspora and Nation; 10. Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898-1904) / Alexander Alon; 11. Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora / Tamar Lewinsky; Part 4. Politics and the Addressee of Ethnography; 12. From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography / Nathaniel Deutsch
Description / Table of Contents:
13. In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes / Alla Sokolova14. Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore / Dani Schrire; Appendixes; Note to Readers; Appendix A. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) / Naftoli Vaynig and Khayim Khayes, Translated by Jordan Finkin; Appendix B. Research Your Shtetl! / H. Aleksandrov, Translated by Jordan Finkin; Appendix C. "A Strange Experience" / A. Almi, Translated by Gabriella Safran; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Selected papers presented at a conference titled "Jewish ethnography between science and literature" held in Zurich (Switzerland) in September 2013.
,
English
URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/45071/
Permalink
