Around the point : studies in jewish literature and culture in multiple languages / / edited by Hillel Weiss, Roman Katsman and Ber Kotlerman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789013803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4438-5752-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (706 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.88924
• Soggetti: Jewish literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Jewish literature - 20th century - 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 at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; PREFACE; AROUND THE POINT; MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURESIN ITALY AND SPAIN; THE ASHKENAZIM-EAST VS. WEST; TRANSFORMATION OF SOLITUDES; ALMOND TREE ALLEYINOMERIJANBY DORIT RABINIAN AS A FICTIONAL TEXTAPPEALING TO THE WAY OF LIFEAND TRADITION IN THE JEWISHCOMMUNITY IN IRAN; LADINO INSTRUCTIONS IN MEZA DE EL ALMAAND SEDER NASHIM FROM THESSALONIKIIN THE 16TH CENTURY; LINGUISTIC CONSERVATISMVERSUS LINGUISTIC PRAGMATISM; THE LAST REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LADINOLITURGICAL LITERATURE OF THE TURKISHJEWISH COMMUNITY OF ISTANBUL; FROM BISCHWILLER TO JERUSALEMAND BACK; THE BOOK OF EDMOND; CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE,BETWEEN FREEDOM AND TRADITIONIN ELIETTE ABÉCASSIS' NOVELET TE VOICI PERMISE À TOUT HOMMETHE DIVINE NAME IN JUDEO-ITALIANTRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLEAND ITS INTERCULTURAL CONNECTIONS; INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGEAND MAINTAINING FIDELITY TO JUDAISM; SEDIMENTS OF COMPLEXED JEWISH IDENTITYIN NATALIA GINZBURG'SWRITINGS; FRANZ KAFKA AND THE JEWISH RELIGION; KAFKA'SAPHORISMS AND KABBALA; SHMA YISRAEL; BENJAMIN BETWEEN KANDINSKIAND WARBURG; "THE MIND HAS NO KNOWLEDGE"; FROM SEPHARDIC TRADITIONAL TO MODERNSERBIAN/YUGOSLAV LITERATURE; TANGLED FRAGMENTS OF ; IDENTITYIN A CHANGING WORLD; THE CULTURAL IDENTITY OF BABELCHAGALL IN MOSCOW; MOSCOW YIDDISH CHAMBER THEATREDURING 1926; ILYA SELVINSKY AND SOVIET SHOAH POETRYIN THE SPRING OF 1945; JEWISHNESS AS DIFFERENCE IN THE LATESOVIET PERIOD AND THE WORKSOF THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS; CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN-JEWISHLITERATURE AND REINVENTINGOF JEWISH POETICS; BORIS PASTERNAK'S DOCTOR ZHIVAGOIN THE EYES OF ISRAELI WRITERSAND INTELLECTUALS (1958-1960); CONTRIBUTORS
• Sommario/riassunto: Around the Point is a unique collection that brings to readers the works of almost thirty scholars dealing with Jewish literature in various Jewish and non-Jewish languages, such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Polish, and Russian. Although this volume does not cover all the languages of Jewish letters, it is a significant endeavor in establishing the realm of multilingual international study of Jewish literature and culture. Among the questions under ...