04271nam 2200673Ia 450 991045919230332120200520144314.00-8047-7502-810.1515/9780804775021(CKB)2670000000051823(EBL)584772(OCoLC)669514907(SSID)ssj0000418143(PQKBManifestationID)11297933(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000418143(PQKBWorkID)10370479(PQKB)10207558(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127885(MiAaPQ)EBC584772(DE-B1597)563785(DE-B1597)9780804775021(Au-PeEL)EBL584772(CaPaEBR)ebr10413415(OCoLC)1178769610(EXLCZ)99267000000005182320090915d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom continuity to contiguity[electronic resource] toward a new Jewish literary thinking /Dan MironStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20101 online resource (559 p.)Stanford Studies in Jewish History and CDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-6200-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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.Stanford Studies in Jewish History and CJewish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismJewish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismHebrew literature, ModernHistory and criticismYiddish literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books.Jewish literatureHistory and criticism.Jewish literatureHistory and criticism.Hebrew literature, ModernHistory and criticism.Yiddish literatureHistory and criticism.809/.88924Miron Dan639032MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459192303321From continuity to contiguity2471618UNINA