The German-Hebrew Dialogue : : Studies of Encounter and Exchange /

The German-Hebrew Dialogue : : Studies of Encounter and Exchange / / ed. by Rachel Seelig, Amir Eshel.

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In the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, it seemed there was no place for German in Israel and no trace of Hebrew in Germany — the two languages and their cultures appeared as divergent as the directions of their scripts. Yet when placed side by side on opposing pages, German and Hebrew conver...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Almog, Yael,
Barzilai, Maya,
Eshel, Amir,
Gillman, Abigail,
Ginsburg, Ruth,
Hever-Chybowski, Tal,
Mahrer, Stefanie,
Rokem, Freddie,
Rokem, Na’ama,
Seelig, Rachel,
Shahar, Galili,
Shemoelof, Mati,
Ticotsky, Giddon,
HerausgeberIn:
Eshel, Amir,
Seelig, Rachel,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 263 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editors’ Introduction
  • Part One: German-Hebrew Exchange in Modernist Literature
  • Not like Cherries, but like Peaches: Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig Translate Yehuda Halevi’s “Ode to Zion”
  • The Flowers of Shame: Avraham Ben Yitzhak’s Hebrew-German “Revival”
  • Dan Pagis’s Laboratory: Between German and Hebrew
  • Stuttering in Verse: Tuvia Rübner and the Art of Self-Translation
  • Vera Europa vs. Verus Israel: Modern Jews’ Encounter with Europe in Light of Lea Goldberg’s Encounter with a Poet
  • Texts and Objects: The Books of the Schocken Publishing House in the Context of their Time
  • איכה /Ach: Lament and Being in Hebrew and German
  • Part Two: German-Hebrew Encounters in the Arts Today
  • “I write bilingual poetry/in Hebrew and in silence”
  • Before the Hebrew Notebook: Kafka’s Words and Gestures in Translation
  • Europe Will Be Stunned: Visualization of a Jewish Return
  • “In His Image”: On Dani Karavan’s Artwork in Germany
  • Mikan ve’eylakh (From this Point Onward), translated by Rachel Seelig
  • The Berlin Prize for Hebrew Literature (excerpt from a novel in progress), translated by Rachel Seelig
  • About the Authors

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