ISBN:
9780804762007
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 543 S.
Year of publication:
2010
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
DDC:
809/.88924
Keywords:
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
;
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
;
Jüdische Literatur
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-530) and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33940
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