Screen LibraryWriting Jewish culture : paradoxes in ethnography /
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Indiana University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Bloomington : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Selected papers presented at a conference titled "Jewish ethnography between science and literature" held in Zurich (Switzerland) in September 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780253019585 (cloth : alkaline paper) : 0253019583 (cloth : alkaline paper) 9780253019622 (paperback : alkaline paper) 0253019621 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780253019646 (ebook) 0253019648 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | DS135 |
| CLC: | D751.062-532 |
| Call Number: | D751.062-532/I613/2013 |
| Contents: |
REINVENTING THE "JEWS" IN ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING -- The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania / Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S.J. Agnonand Ahron Eliasberg / The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" / Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" / SEEING, HEARING, AND READING JEWS -- Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy / Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890 -- 1930) / Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Leon Feuchtwanger's Jud Suss / Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das ostjudische Antlitz (1920) / Avant-Garde Authenticity: M. Vorobeichic's Photographic Modernism and the East European Jew / SPACES OF JEWISH ETHNOGRAPHY BETWEEN DIASPORA AND NATION -- Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898 -- 1904) / Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora / POLITICS AND THE ADDRESSEE OF ETHNOGRAPHY -- From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography / In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes / Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore / APPENDIXES -- Note to Readers -- A What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) / Research Your Shtetl! / "A Strange Experience" / |