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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814165603321

Autore

Barouch Lina

Titolo

Between German and Hebrew : the counterlanguages of Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft and Ludwig Strauss / / Lina Barouch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg : , : Magnes, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-046450-0

3-11-046661-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Classificazione

BD 6661

Disciplina

830.80892409436

Soggetti

German literature - Jewish authors

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

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 -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations of Selected Primary Sources -- Introduction -- I. Gershom Scholem: Language between Lamentation and Retaliation -- II. Werner Kraft: “Singing a Lost World” -- III. Ludwig Strauss: Polyglot Dialogue and Parody -- Conclusion: The Eyes and Ears of Language -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the German-Hebrew contact zones in which Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft and Ludwig Strauss lived and produced their creative work in early twentieth-century Germany and later in British Mandate Palestine after their voluntary or forced migration in the 1920s and 1930s. Set in shifting historical contexts and literary debates – the notion of the German vernacular nation, Hebraism and Jewish Revival in Weimar Germany, the crisis of language in modernist literature, and the fledgling multilingual communities in Jerusalem, the writings of Scholem, Kraft and Strauss emerge as unique forms of counterlanguage. The three chapters of the book are dedicated to Scholem’s Hebraist lamentation, Kraft’s Germanist steadfastness and Strauss’s polyglot dialogue, respectively. The examination of their correspondences, diaries, scholarship and literary oeuvres demonstrates how counteractive writing practices helped confront



concrete and metaphorical crises of language to produce compelling alternatives to literary silence, amnesia or paralysis that were prompted by cultural marginality and dislocation.