Writing Jewish culture : paradoxes in ethnography / edited by Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kilcher, Andreas B., 1963- editor.

JSTOR (Organization)

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Jews.

Jews--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Jewish folklorists--Europe, Eastern--Congresses.

Jewish folklorists.

Folk literature, Yiddish--Congresses.

Folk literature, Yiddish.

Jewish folk literature--Congresses.

Jewish folk literature.

Ethnology--Europe, Eastern--Congresses.

Ethnology.

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Reinventing The "Jews" In Ethnographic Writing

1 The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania / Liliane Weissberg Weissberg, Liliane 25

2 Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S.J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg / Sylvia Jaworski Jaworski, Sylvia 48

3 The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" / Andreas Kilcher Kilcher, Andreas 68

4 Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" / Jordan Finkin Finkin, Jordan 94

Part 2 Seeing, Hearing, and Reading Jews

5 Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy / Gabriella Safran Safran, Gabriella 119

6 Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930) / Annette Werberger Werberger, Annette 138

7 Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Leon Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss / Galit Hasan-Rokem Hasan-Rokem, Galit 159

8 Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das ostjüdische Antlitz (1920) / Eva Edelmann-Ohler Edelmann-Ohler, Eva 181

9 Avant-Garde Authenticity: M. Vorobeichic's Photographic Modernism and the East European Jew / Samuel Spinner Spinner, Samuel 208

Part 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 Alon, Alexander 235

11 Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora / Tamar Lewinsky Lewinsky, Tamar 251

Part 4 Politics and the Addressee of Ethnography

12 From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography / Nathaniel Deutsch Deutsch, Nathaniel 273

13 In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes / Alla Sokolova Sokolova, Alla 291

14 Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore / Dani Schrire Schrire, Dani 322.

Notes:

Selected papers presented at a conference titled "Jewish ethnography between science and literature" held in Zurich (Switzerland) in September 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 18, 2016).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Weissberg, Liliane. Voice of a native informer: Salomon Maimon describes life in Polish Lithuania.

Other Format:

Print version: Writing Jewish culture.

ISBN:

9780253019646

0253019648

Publisher Number:

99967065808

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.