Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253019621 ISBN 13: 9780253019622

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience, readers, and listeners. 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.

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Andreas Kilcher is a professor at ETH Zurich and author of The Linguistic Theory of Kabbalah as an Aesthetical Paradigm and Dictionary of German-Jewish Literature.
Gabriella Safran is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University and author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253019621
• ISBN 13: 9780253019622
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 426
• Herausgeber: Safran Gabriella, Kilcher Andreas
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande