Culture front

Titel: Culture front : representing Jews in Eastern Europe / ed. by Benjamin Nathans ...
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Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Umfang: VIII, 323 Seiten ; 23cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Jewish culture and contexts
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ISBN: 0812240553 ; 9780812240559
Lokale Klassifikation: 31 3 F ; 31 7 E ; 31 11 M ; 26 15 M ; 26 15 Ma ; 32 3 F ; 26 15 L ; 26 10 E
  • Preface
  • p. ix
  • Introduction: A New Look at East European Jewish Culture
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • Violence and Civility
  • 1
  • Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648-1649 and the Creation of a Polish-Jewish Consciousness
  • p. 17
  • 2
  • "Civil Christians": Debates on the Reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789-1830
  • p. 46
  • Part II
  • Mirrors of Popular Culture
  • 3
  • The Botched Kiss and the Beginnings of the Yiddish Stage
  • p. 79
  • 4
  • The Polish Popular Novel and Jewish Modernization at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries
  • p. 103
  • 5
  • Cul-de-Sac: The "Inner Life of Jews" on the Fin-de-Siecle Polish Stage
  • p. 119
  • Part III
  • Politics and Aesthetics
  • 6
  • Yosef Haim Brenner, the "Half-Intelligentsia," and Russian-Jewish Politics, 1899-1908
  • p. 145
  • 7
  • Recreating Jewish Identity in Haim Nahman Bialik's Poems: The Russian Context
  • p. 176
  • 8
  • Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917-1919
  • p. 196
  • 9
  • Beyond the Purim-shpil: Reinventing the Scroll of Esther in Modern Yiddish Poems
  • p. 241
  • Part IV
  • Memory Projects
  • 10
  • Revealing and Concealing the Soviet Jewish Self: The Desk-Drawer Memoirs of Meir Viner
  • p. 269
  • 11
  • The Shtetl Subjunctive: Yaffa Eliach's Living History Museum
  • p. 288
  • List of Contributors
  • p. 307
  • Index
  • p. 311