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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813190103321

Titolo

Jewish aspects in avant-garde : between rebellion and revelation / / edited by Mark H. Gelber and Sami Sjöberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-045290-1

3-11-045495-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 pages)

Collana

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts, , 2199-6962 ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

909.04924082

Soggetti

Jews - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dada Judaism: The Avant-Garde in First World War Zurich -- Jews and the Avant-Garde: The Case of Romania -- Towards an Ahistorical Jewishness: The Idea of Jewish Essence in the German-Jewish Avant-Garde -- Carl Einstein, Jewishness, and the Communities of the European Avant-Garde -- Challenging the Literary Community: The Warsaw Yiddish Avant-Garde and Khalyastre -- Modern Jewish Sculptors and the Cultural Policy of the USSR in the 1920s–1930s -- Frontière humaine: Race, Nation, and the Shape of Representation in Claude Cahun -- Arnold Schoenberg’s Jewish Veil: The Workings of Anti-Semitic Rhetoric in Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18 (1913) -- Saints and Tsadikim – The Religious Syncretism of Jewish Expressionism -- Between Ecstasy and Lament: Revelationism and Messianism in Epstein and Godard -- The Mad Book: Der Nister as Unreliable Author in From my Estate (1929) -- The Role of Judaism in Benjamin Fondane’s Existential Philosophy -- The Avant-Garde and the Jews -- Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings linked to elements from Judaism or Jewish culture,



thought, or history.