From continuity to contiguity [[electronic resource] ] : toward a new Jewish literary thinking / / Dan Miron

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785396703321
• Autore: Miron Dan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 0-8047-7502-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (559 p.)
• Collana: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
• Disciplina: 809/.88924
• Soggetti: Jewish literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Jewish literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Hebrew literature, Modern - History and criticism; Yiddish literature - History and criticism
• 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: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- 1. Prologue: Old Questions; Do They Deserve New Answers? -- 2. The “Old” Jewish Literary Discourse and the Illusion of Israeli Cultural Normalcy -- 3. Modern Jewish Literary Thinking: The Enlightenment and the Advent of Nationalism -- 4. The Jewish Literary Renaissance at the Turn of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries -- 5. The Inter-Bellum Decades: Hebrew -- 6. The Inter-Bellum Decades: Yiddish; Issues of Cultural Continuity in Revolutionary Times -- 7. Vertical and Horizontal Continuities and Discontinuities -- 8. Dov Sadan’s Concept of Sifrut Yisra’el, and Why the “Old” Jewish Literary Discourse Became Irrelevant -- 9. Jewish Diglossias—Differential and Integral -- 10. Contiguity: Franz Kafka’s Standing Within the Modern Jewish Literary Complex -- 11. Contiguity: How Kafka and Sholem Aleichem Are Contiguous -- 12. Conclusion: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking -- Breathing Through Both Nostrils? Shalom Ya’akov Abramovitsh Between Hebrew and Yiddish -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Dan Miron—widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures—begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying ; the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped by the need to see these literatures as a continuum. Miron seeks to break through this impasse by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. These literatures instead form a complex of independent, yet touching, components related through contiguity. From Continuity to Contiguity offers original insights into modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish literatures, including a new interpretation of Franz Kafka's place within them and discussions of Sholem Aleichem, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Akhad ha'am, M. Y. Berditshevsky, Kh. N. Bialik, and Y. L. Peretz.