Culture Front : : Representing Jews in Eastern Europe /

Culture Front : : Representing Jews in Eastern Europe / / ed. by Gabriella Safran, Benjamin Nathans.

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For most of the last four centuries, the broad expanse of territory between the Baltic and the Black Seas, known since the Enlightenment as "Eastern Europe," has been home to the world's largest Jewish population. The Jews of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Galicia, Romania, and Ukraine we...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Bar-Yosef, Hamutal,
Frankel, Jonathan,
Hellerstein, Kathryn,
Moseley, Marcus,
Moss, Kenneth B.,
Nathans, Benjamin,
Prokop-Janiec, Eugenia,
Quint, Alyssa,
Safran, Gabriella,
Shandler, Jeffrey,
Steinlauf, Michael C.,
Teller, Adam,
Wodzinski, Marcin,
HerausgeberIn:
Nathans, Benjamin,
Safran, Gabriella,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2008
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction. A New Look at East European Jewish Culture
  • Part I. Violence and Civility
  • 1. Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648-1649 and the Creation of a Polish-Jewish Consciousness
  • 2. ''Civil Christians'': Debates on the Reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789-1830
  • Part II. Mirrors of Popular Culture
  • 3. The Botched Kiss and the Beginnings of the Yiddish Stage
  • 4. The Polish Popular Novel and Jewish Modernization at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries
  • 5. Cul-de-Sac: The ''Inner Life of Jews'' on the Fin-de-Sie`cle Polish Stage
  • Part III. Politics and Aesthetics
  • 6. Yosef Haim Brenner, the ''Half-Intelligentsia,'' and Russian-Jewish Politics, 1898-1908
  • 7. Recreating Jewish Identity in Haim Nahman Bialik's Poems: The Russian Context
  • 8. Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917-1919
  • 9. Beyond the Purim-shpil: Reinventing the Scroll of Esther in Modern Yiddish Poems
  • Part IV. Memory Projects
  • 10. Revealing and Concealing the Soviet Jewish Self: The Desk-Drawer Memoirs of Meir Viner
  • 11. The Shtetl Subjunctive: Yaffa Eliach's Living History Museum
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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