Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde : : Between Rebellion and Revelation / / ed. by Mark H. Gelber, Sami Sjöberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Aschheim, Steven E.,; Bodenheimer, Alfred,; Gelber, Mark H.,; Koenig, Raphael,; Kramer, Andreas,; Paulus, Tom,; Roth, Zoë,; Salazar-Ferrer, Olivier,; Silina, Maria,; Sjöberg, Sami,; Sobelman, Alana,; Stern, Radu,; Stolarska-Fronia, Małgorzata,; Tordjman, Laëtitia,
• HerausgeberIn: Gelber, Mark H.,; Sjöberg, Sami,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 277 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; The Avant-Garde and Jewish Traditions --; Dada Judaism: The Avant-Garde in First World War Zurich --; Jews and the Avant-Garde: The Case of Romania --; Towards an Ahistorical Jewishness: The Idea of Jewish Essence in the German-Jewish Avant-Garde --; Community Building and Cultural Conflicts --; Carl Einstein, Jewishness, and the Communities of the European Avant-Garde --; Challenging the Literary Community: The Warsaw Yiddish Avant-Garde and Khalyastre --; Modern Jewish Sculptors and the Cultural Policy of the USSR in the 1920s–1930s --; Self-Representation and Anti-Semitism --; Frontière humaine: Race, Nation, and the Shape of Representation in Claude Cahun --; Arnold Schoenberg’s Jewish Veil: The Workings of Anti-Semitic Rhetoric in Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18 (1913) --; Saints and Tsadikim – The Religious Syncretism of Jewish Expressionism --; Between Ecstasy and Lament: Revelationism and Messianism in Epstein and Godard --; The Mad Book: Der Nister as Unreliable Author in From my Estate (1929) --; The Role of Judaism in Benjamin Fondane’s Existential Philosophy --; Jews in the Avant-Garde: A Historical Perspective --; The Avant-Garde and the Jews --; Notes on Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110454956; 9783110762495; 9783110719543; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110547764
• ISSN: 2199-6962
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110454956
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Mark H. Gelber, Sami Sjöberg.

This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings linked to elements from Judaism or Jewish culture, thought, or history.