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Textual transmission in contemporary Jewish cultures / guest editor, Avriel Bar-Levav ; editor, Uzi Rebhun.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 31.
- Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Intellectual life.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 343 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points in Jewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political, geographical, technological, and cultural shifts. Contemporary textual transmission in Jewish culture has been influenced by secularization, the return to Hebrew and the emergence of modern Yiddish, and the new centers of Jewish life in the United States and in Israel, as well as by advancements in print technology and the invention of the Internet. Volume XXXI of Studies in Contemporary Jewry deals with various aspects of textual transmission in Jewish culture in the last two centuries. 0Essays in this volume examine old and new kinds of media and their meanings; new modes of transmission in fields such as Jewish music; and the struggle to continue transmitting texts under difficult political circumstances. Two essays analyze textual transmission in the works of giants of modern Jewish literature: S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Yiddish. Other essays discuss paratexts in the East, print cultures in the West, and the organization of knowledge in libraries and encyclopedias.
- Contents:
- Avriel Bar-Levav, Library Awareness and Textual Intimacy in Contemporary Jewish Culture
- Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky, Digital Research of Jewish Texts: Challenges and Opportunities
- Yaniv Hagbi, Textual Transmission as Textual Participation: The Case of Materialism in S.Y. Agnon's Perception of Language
- Jan Schwarz, The Lost Souls of Meshugah: Textual Transmission of Isaac Bashevis Singer's World Literature
- Gennady Estraikh, Yiddish Publishing in the Soviet Union, 1953-1991
- Andreas Lehnardt, The Discovery and Recovery of Hebrew Manuscripts: The Case of Germany
- Edwin Seroussi, The Jewish Liturgical Music Printing Revolution: A Preliminary Assessment
- Ido Ramati, Media in the Dissemination of Land of Israel Songs
- Guy Bracha, Digitization of Jewish Nahdah Texts: "Knowing the Enemy" or Preserving a Heritage?
- Yigal S. Nizri, "Fit to Sacrifice on the Altar of Print": Approbation Letters and the Printing of 19th-Century Moroccan Halakhic Books
- Arndt Engelhardt, Transferring Jewish Knowledge: F.A. Brockhaus as a Publisher of Judaica and Orientalia
- Dan Tsahor, Knowledge and the Making of a Jewish Nation: Encyclopedia, Historical Narrative, and the Epistemic Origins of Zionism
- Essay
- Adi Livny, Fighting Partition, Saving Mount Scopus: The Pragmatic Binationalism of D.W. Senator (1930-1949).
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-751651-3
- 0-19-751649-1
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