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From continuity to contiguity : toward a new Jewish literary thinking / Dan Miron

Miron, Dan, 1934-

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press, 2010

XIV, 543 S.

Englisch

Prologue : Old questions; Do they deserve new answers? -- The "old" Jewish literary discourse and the illusion of Israeli cultural normalcy -- Modern Jewish literary thinking : the enlightenment and the advent of nationalism -- The Jewish literary renaissance at the turn of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries -- The inter-bellum decades : Hebrew -- The inter-bellum decades : Yiddish; issues of cultural continuity in revolutionary times -- Vertical and horizontal continuities and discontinuities -- Dov Sadan's concept of sifrut yisrael, and why the "old" Jewish literary discourse became irrelevant -- Jewish diglossias, differential and integral -- Contiguity : Franz Kafka's standing within the modern Jewish literary complex -- Contiguity : how Kafka and Sholem Aleichem are contiguous -- Conclusion : toward a new Jewish literary thinking -- Breathing through both nostrils? Shalom Yaakov Abramovitsh between Hebrew and Yiddish.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-530) and index

978-0-8047-6200-7 (cloth : alk. paper)

2009038331

9780804762007

OCoLC: 705896655     

OCoLC: 705896655 (aus SWB)     

EC 5250  | BD 7680      Ähnliche Literatur

PN842

809/.88924 ; 809.88924

Basisklassifikation: 18.00 (Einzelne Sprachen und Literaturen allgemein) ; 17.75 (Literaturkritik)

*Jüdische Literatur      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jewish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism ; Jewish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism ; Hebrew literature, Modern -- History and criticism ; Yiddish literature -- History and criticism ; Jewish literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century ; Jewish literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century ; Hebrew literature, Modern -- History and criticism ; Yiddish literature -- History and criticism

Prologue : Old questions; Do they deserve new answers? -- The "old" Jewish literary discourse and the illusion of Israeli cultural normalcy -- Modern Jewish literary thinking : the enlightenment and the advent of nationalism -- The Jewish literary renaissance at the turn of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries -- The inter-bellum decades : Hebrew -- The inter-bellum decades : Yiddish; issues of cultural continuity in revolutionary times -- Vertical and horizontal continuities and discontinuities -- Dov Sadan's concept of sifrut yisrael, and why the "old" Jewish literary discourse became irrelevant -- Jewish diglossias, differential and integral -- Contiguity : Franz Kafka's standing within the modern Jewish literary complex -- Contiguity : how Kafka and Sholem Aleichem are contiguous -- Conclusion : toward a new Jewish literary thinking -- Breathing through both nostrils? Shalom Yaakov Abramovitsh between Hebrew and Yiddish