1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463269203321

Autore

Fynsk Christopher <1952->

Titolo

Last steps [[electronic resource] ] : Maurice Blanchot's exilic writing / / Christopher Fynsk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-5103-9

0-8232-5281-7

0-8232-5104-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

848/.91207

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Sabbatical acquiescence -- pt. 2. Refusal/affirmation -- pt. 3. The exilic step.

Sommario/riassunto

Fynsk provides close readings of a number of Maurice Blanchot's important post-war writings. It offers the most sustained reading of 'The Step Not Beyond' available, and includes chapters on Levinas and Blanchot's relation to Judaism. It attempts a form of reading that is responsive to the exorbitant challenge presented by the work of one of the most important writers and thinkers of the 20th century. It seeks to trace the possibility and lineaments of an affirmative turn that proceeds from a most trenchant refusal.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524708403321

Autore

Soyer Daniel

Titolo

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 : Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture / / Daniel Soyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wayne State University Press, 2018

Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

9780814344514

0814344518

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 pages)

Disciplina

974.7/1004924/006

Soggetti

Jews - New York (State) - New York - Societies, etc - History

Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - Societies, etc - History

Jews, East European - New York (State) - New York - Societies, etc - History

Electronic books.

New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-274) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Orthography and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. The Old World -- 2. The New World -- 3. Landsmanshaft Culture and Immigrant Identities -- 4. Brothers in Need -- 5. The Building Blocks of Community -- 6. Institutional Dilemmas -- 7. The Heroic Period -- 8. Looking Backward -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. In addition to discussing



both continuity and transformation as features of the immigrant experience, this approach recognizes that ethnic identity is a socially constructed and malleable phenomenon. Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.