Antonio’s Devils : Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature / Jeremy Asher Dauber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dauber, Jeremy Asher, Author.

Series:

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Antonio's Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing the progress of a few remarkable writers who, for various reasons and in various ways, cited Scripture for their own purpose, as Antonio's "devil," Shylock, does in The Merchant of Venice. By examining the work of key figures in the early history of Jewish literature through the prism of their allusions to classical Jewish texts, the book focuses attention on the magnificent and highly complex strategies the maskilim employed to achieve their polemical and ideological goals. Dauber uses this methodology to examine foundational texts by some of the Jewish Enlightenment's most interesting and important authors, reaching new and often surprising conclusions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Orthography

List of Abbreviations

Part One. Setting the Stage

1. Antonio’s Devil: Shylock, Allusion, and the Birth of Modern Jewish Literature

2. Allusion in a Jewish Key: Literary Theory and the Study of Haskala Literature

3. Historical Background

Part Two. Prussia

4. Moses Mendelssohn

5. Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn

Part Three. Galicia

6. Joseph Perl: Between Hebrew and Yiddish

7. Joseph Perl: Megale Temirin

Part Four. Coda

Conclusion and Further Directions for Study

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

9780804767279

0804767270