Writing Jewish culture : paradoxes in ethnography / / edited by Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington ; ; Indianapolis : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/4047
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Europe, Eastern - Social life and customs; Jews - Social life and customs; Jewish folklorists - Europe, Eastern; Folk literature, Yiddish; Jewish folk literature; Ethnology - Europe, Eastern
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations Congresses
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WeissbergLiliane
• Persona (resp. second.): KilcherAndreas B. <1963->; SafranGabriella
• Note generali: Selected papers presented at a conference titled "Jewish ethnography between science and literature" held in Zurich (Switzerland) in September 2013.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Names; Introduction; Part 1. Reinventing the "Jews" in Ethnographic Writing; 1. The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania / Liliane Weissberg; 2. Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S. J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg / Sylvia Jaworski; 3. The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" / Andreas Kilcher; 4. Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" / Jordan Finkin ; Part 2. Seeing, Hearing, and Reading Jews5. Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy / Gabriella Safran; 6. Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930) / Annette Werberger; 7. Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Leon Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss / Galit Hasan-Rokem; 8. Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das ostjüdische Antlitz (1920) / Eva Edelmann-Ohler ; 9. Avant-Garde Authenticity: M. Vorobeichic's Photographic Modernism and the East European Jew / Samuel SpinnerPart 3. Spaces of Jewish Ethnography Between Diaspora and Nation; 10. Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898-1904) / Alexander Alon; 11. Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora / Tamar Lewinsky; Part 4. Politics and the Addressee of Ethnography; 12. From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography / Nathaniel Deutsch ; 13. In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes / Alla Sokolova14. Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore / Dani Schrire; Appendixes; Note to Readers; Appendix A. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) / Naftoli Vaynig and Khayim Khayes, Translated by Jordan Finkin; Appendix B. Research Your Shtetl! / H. Aleksandrov, Translated by Jordan Finkin; Appendix C. "A Strange Experience" / A. Almi, Translated by Gabriella Safran; List of Contributors; Index
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing Jewish culture
• ISBN: 0-253-01964-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465990403321
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