Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde : : Between Rebellion and Revelation /

Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde : : Between Rebellion and Revelation / / 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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 277 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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