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| Title |
Writing Jewish culture : paradoxes in ethnography / edited by Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
Bloomington Indianapolis : Indiana University Press |
| Creation Date |
[2016] |
| Notes |
Selected papers presented at a conference titled "Jewish ethnography between science and literature" held in Zurich (Switzerland) in September 2013. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Content |
Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Names Introduction Part 1. Reinventing the "Jews" in Ethnographic Writing 1. The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania / Liliane Weissberg 2. Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S. J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg / Sylvia Jaworski 3. The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" / Andreas Kilcher 4. Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" / Jordan Finkin Part 2. Seeing, Hearing, and Reading Jews5. Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy / Gabriella Safran 6. Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930) / Annette Werberger 7. Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Leon Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss / Galit Hasan-Rokem 8. Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das ostjüdische Antlitz (1920) / Eva Edelmann-Ohler 9. Avant-Garde Authenticity: M. Vorobeichic's Photographic Modernism and the East European Jew / Samuel SpinnerPart 3. Spaces of Jewish Ethnography Between Diaspora and Nation 10. Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898-1904) / Alexander Alon 11. Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora / Tamar Lewinsky Part 4. Politics and the Addressee of Ethnography 12. From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography / Nathaniel Deutsch 13. In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes / Alla Sokolova14. Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore / Dani Schrire Appendixes Note to Readers Appendix A. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) / Naftoli Vaynig and Khayim Khayes, Translated by Jordan Finkin Appendix B. Research Your Shtetl! / H. Aleksandrov, Translated by Jordan Finkin Appendix C. "A Strange Experience" / A. Almi, Translated by Gabriella Safran List of Contributors Index |
| Extent |
1 online resource (426 pages) |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2016 |
| National Library system number |
997010720960905171 |
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