Around the point : studies in jewish literature and culture in multiple languages / edited by Hillel Weiss, Roman Katsman and Ber Kotlerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weiss, Hillel, 1945- editor.

Katsman, Roman, editor.

Kotlerman, Ber, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Jewish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (706 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Around the Point is a unique collection that brings to readers the works of almost thirty scholars dealing with Jewish literature in various Jewish and non-Jewish languages, such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Polish, and Russian. Although this volume does not cover all the languages of Jewish letters, it is a significant endeavor in establishing the realm of multilingual international study of Jewish literature and culture. Among the questions under ...

Contents:

CONTENTS; PREFACE; AROUND THE POINT; MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURESIN ITALY AND SPAIN; THE ASHKENAZIM-EAST VS. WEST; TRANSFORMATION OF SOLITUDES; ALMOND TREE ALLEYINOMERIJANBY DORIT RABINIAN AS A FICTIONAL TEXTAPPEALING TO THE WAY OF LIFEAND TRADITION IN THE JEWISHCOMMUNITY IN IRAN; LADINO INSTRUCTIONS IN MEZA DE EL ALMAAND SEDER NASHIM FROM THESSALONIKIIN THE 16TH CENTURY; LINGUISTIC CONSERVATISMVERSUS LINGUISTIC PRAGMATISM; THE LAST REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LADINOLITURGICAL LITERATURE OF THE TURKISHJEWISH COMMUNITY OF ISTANBUL; FROM BISCHWILLER TO JERUSALEMAND BACK; THE BOOK OF EDMOND

CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE,BETWEEN FREEDOM AND TRADITIONIN ELIETTE ABÉCASSIS' NOVELET TE VOICI PERMISE À TOUT HOMMETHE DIVINE NAME IN JUDEO-ITALIANTRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLEAND ITS INTERCULTURAL CONNECTIONS; INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGEAND MAINTAINING FIDELITY TO JUDAISM; SEDIMENTS OF COMPLEXED JEWISH IDENTITYIN NATALIA GINZBURG'SWRITINGS; FRANZ KAFKA AND THE JEWISH RELIGION; KAFKA'SAPHORISMS AND KABBALA; SHMA YISRAEL; BENJAMIN BETWEEN KANDINSKIAND WARBURG; "THE MIND HAS NO KNOWLEDGE"; FROM SEPHARDIC TRADITIONAL TO MODERNSERBIAN/YUGOSLAV LITERATURE; TANGLED FRAGMENTS OF IDENTITYIN A CHANGING WORLD

THE CULTURAL IDENTITY OF BABELCHAGALL IN MOSCOW; MOSCOW YIDDISH CHAMBER THEATREDURING 1926; ILYA SELVINSKY AND SOVIET SHOAH POETRYIN THE SPRING OF 1945; JEWISHNESS AS DIFFERENCE IN THE LATESOVIET PERIOD AND THE WORKSOF THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS; CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN-JEWISHLITERATURE AND REINVENTINGOF JEWISH POETICS; BORIS PASTERNAK'S DOCTOR ZHIVAGOIN THE EYES OF ISRAELI WRITERSAND INTELLECTUALS (1958-1960); CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5752-1

OCLC:

875097313