Jewish Literatures And Cultures In Southeastern Europe
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Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
Author | : Olaf Terpitz |
Publisher | : Böhlau Verlag Wien |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783205212881 |
The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy.Southeastern Europe is characterized by a high degree of ethnical, religious and cultural diversity. Jews, whether Sephardim, Ashkenazim or Romaniots – settling there in different periods – experienced divergent life worlds which engendered rich cultural production. Though recent scholarly and popular interest in this heterogeneous region has grown impressively, Jewish cultural production is still an under-researched area. The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy, thus creating a dialogue between Jewish studies, Balkan studies, and current literary and cultural theories.
Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
Author | : Renate Hansen-Kokoruš |
Publisher | : Böhlau Wien |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2021-10-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3205212894 |
The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy. Southeastern Europe is characterized by a high degree of ethnical, religious and cultural diversity. Jews, whether Sephardim, Ashkenazim or Romaniots – settling there in different periods – experienced divergent life worlds which engendered rich cultural production. Though recent scholarly and popular interest in this heterogeneous region has grown impressively, Jewish cultural production is still an under-researched area. The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy, thus creating a dialogue between Jewish studies, Balkan studies, and current literary and cultural theories.
The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
Author | : Israel Bartal |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812200810 |
In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence and the imposition in Russia of strong anti-Semitic legislation. In the years between, a traditional society accustomed to an autonomous way of life would be transformed into one much more open to its surrounding cultures, yet much more confident of its own nationalist identity. In The Jews of Eastern Europe, Israel Bartal traces this transformation and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity.
After Memory
Author | : Matthias Schwartz |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110713837 |
Even seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the commemorative cultures surrounding the War and the Holocaust in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe are anything but fixed. The fierce debates on how to deal with the past among the newly constituted nation states in these regions have already received much attention by scholars in cultural and memory studies. The present volume posits that literature as a medium can help us understand the shifting attitudes towards World War II and the Holocaust in post-Communist Europe in recent years. These shifts point to new commemorative cultures shaping up ‘after memory’. Contemporary literary representations of World War II and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe do not merely extend or replace older practices of remembrance and testimony, but reflect on these now defunct or superseded narratives. New narratives of remembrance are conditioned by a fundamentally new social and political context, one that emerged from the devaluation of socialist commemorative rituals and as a response to the loss of private and family memory narratives. The volume offers insights into the diverse literatures of Eastern Europe and their ways of depicting the area’s contested heritage.
Affective Worldmaking
Author | : Silvia Schultermandl |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2022-03-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3839461413 |
What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in times of crisis. By combining theoretical, literary, and analytical texts, the contributors offer methodological impulses and reflect on the possibilities and limitations of affect theory in cultural studies.
The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom
Author | : Robert Chazan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2006-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139459872 |
Between the years AD 1000 and 1500, western Christendom absorbed by conquest and attracted through immigration a growing number of Jews. This community was to make a valuable contribution to rapidly developing European civilisation but was also to suffer some terrible setbacks, culminating in a series of expulsions from the more advanced westerly areas of Europe. At the same time, vigorous new branches of world Jewry emerged and a rich new Jewish cultural legacy was created. In this important historical synthesis, Robert Chazan discusses the Jewish experience over a 500 year period across the entire continent of Europe. As well as being the story of medieval Jewry, the book simultaneously illuminates important aspects of majority life in Europe during this period. This book is essential reading for all students of medieval Jewish history and an important reference for any scholar of medieval Europe.
Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica
Author | : Eugenia Russell |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441161775 |
A cultural history of one of the most important centres of the Hellenistic and Byzantine world.