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Culture front : representing jews in eastern europe /

Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Nathans, Benjamin; Safran, Gabriella
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2008]
©2008
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Jewish culture and contexts
Subjects:
East European literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Jews in literature.
Jews > Europe, Eastern > Civilization.
Electronic books.
Jewish studies.
Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology.
Theology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812291032
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Summary: Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9780812291032
Index Number: DS135
CLC: C955.382
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Introduction. A New Look at East European Jewish Culture /
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 /
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 /
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 /
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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