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Format: VIII, 603 S.

Series Statement: [Fabula / Supplementserie / B] 3

Language: English

Subjects: History , Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures , Ethnology , Theology

Keywords: Juden ; Volkskunde ; Juden ; Volksliteratur ; Juden ; Volkserzählung ; Kommentar

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Format: 1 online resource (xxxvi, 506 p. ) , Grayscale Illustration, Tables

Edition: Second edition.

ISBN: 9781946527622 , 1946527629

Series Statement: Brown Judaic studies; 334

Content: This collection of close textual reading by scholars in a variety of areas, including rabbinics, Jewish history, education, Hebrew literature, Yidish literature, America Jewish literature, is a tribute to Arnold Band. Each Essay constitutes a new and original reading of a text. The texts analyzed are drawn from a wide range of genres: talmudic legal texts, hasidic tales, folklore, as well as modern poems, essays, and works of fiction in Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English.

Note: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912. , Part I: Classical Jewish Texts and Modern Interpreters -- Part II: S. Y. Agnon -- Part III: Diaspora -- Part IV: Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel. , Two Literary Talmudic Readings -- Sefer Ha'aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy? -- “The Scroll of Fire”: An Interpretation -- Rabbi Nahman's Third Beggar -- Parallel Worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh -- A Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz “On Interpretation” -- S. Y. Agnon's “From Foe to Friend”: Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor -- Is Tehillah Worthy of Her Praise? -- Religious Ecstasy, Erotic Turmoil, and Christian Innuendoes in S. Y. Agnon's “Haneshiqah Harishonah” (“First Kiss”) -- Flirtation in S. Y. Agnon's Shira -- Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa: A Hallucinatory Vision in S. Y. Agnon's Tetnol Shilshom -- Childish Distortions of Rabbinic Texts in S. Y. Agnon's “Hamitpahat” -- What “Dances” in Agnon's “Dance of Death” -- Agnon from a Medieval Perspective -- “The Wealthy Señor Miguel”: A Study of a Sephardic Novella -- The Imagined Jew: Heinrich Heine's “Prinzessin Sabbath” -- The Way of the “Wail of the Wind”: Peretz Smolenskin's Latent, Worthy Ars Poetica -- Assonance and Its Share in Irony: Comments on Sefer Haqabtsanim -- Three Kalikes: A Comparative Study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis -- Some Crosscurrents of Linguistic Nationalism: M.Y. Berdyczewski on the Centrality of Hebrew -- Bialik's “Tsafririm”: Innocence and Experience -- Death in a Furnished Room: Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's Obituaries -- Philip Roth, Jewish Identity, and the Satire of Modern Success -- Rachel and the Female Voice: Labor, Gender, and the Zionist Pioneer Vision -- Revising the Past: The Image of the Idyllic “Village” -- Why Did the River Turn Red? On the Story “Orsha” by Gershon Schofmann -- A Prayer of Homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever -- The Kernel -- Who Is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's Novel To Remember, To Forget -- Rereading Dan Pagis's “Abba” -- What Learning Is Most Worth? -- Aharon Megged's “Burden” in His Portrayals of the Effects of Israel's Wars -- Shading the Truth: A. B. Yehoshua's “Facing the Forests” -- Political Mothers: Women's Voice and the Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry -- Zionist Dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's “A Cow Named Virginia” -- Between Genesis and Sophocles: Biblical Psychopolitics in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani -- Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days: A Poetic Dialogue -- The Frigid Option: A Psychocultural Study of the Novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev. , English

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Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xx, 456 pages) : , illustrations (some color)

ISBN: 9789004291973

Series Statement: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, v. 19

Content: The volume demonstrates the cultural centrality of the oral tradition for Iranian studies. It contains contributions from scholars from various areas of Iranian and comparative studies, among which are the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition with its wide network of influences in late antique Mesopotamia, notably among the Jewish milieu; classical Persian literature in its manifold genres; medieval Persian history; oral history; folklore and more. The essays in this collection embrace both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods, both verbal and visual media, as well as various language communities (Middle Persian, Persian, Tajik, Dari) and geographical spaces (Greater Iran in pre-Islamic and Islamic medieval periods; Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan of modern times). Taken as a whole, the essays reveal the unique blending of oral and literate poetics in the texts or visual artefacts each author focuses upon, conceptualizing their interrelationship and function.

Note: Preliminary Material -- , Introduction: New Perspectives on Orality in Iranian Studies / , 1 Memory and Textuality in the Orality-Literacy Continuum / , 2 Orality and Esotericism / , 3 Irano-Talmudica iii / , 4 The Islamic Ascension Narrative in the Context of Conversion in Medieval Iran / , 5 The Motif of the Cave and the Funerary Narratives of Nāṣir-i Khusrau / , 6 ʻThe Ground Well Trodden But the Shah Not Found . . .ʼ / , 7 ʻThe Book of the Black Demon,ʼ or Shabrang-nāma, and the Black Demon in Oral Tradition / , 8 Why So Many Stories? Untangling the Versions of Iskandar's Birth and Upbringing / , 9 Some Comments on the Probable Sources of Ibn Ḥusām's Khāvarānnāma and the Oral Transmission of Epic Materials / , 10 Professional Storytelling (naqqālī) in Qājār Iran / , 11 The Literary Use of Proverbs and Myths in Nāṣir-i Khusrau's Dīvān / , 12 Classical Poetry as Cultural Capital in the Proverbs of Jews from Iran / , 13 Gashtak: Oral/Literary Intertextuality, Performance and Identity in Contemporary Tajikistan / , 14 The Tale of ʻThe Old Woman on the Mountainʼ / , 15 Aramaic Incantation Texts between Orality and Textuality / , 16 Between Demons and Kings / , 17 Between Written Texts, Oral Performances and Mural Paintings / , Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World: Patterns of Interaction Across the Centuries Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2015, ISBN 9789004291836

Language: English

Keywords: Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; History.

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Format: 1 online resource (viii, 400 pages) : , 267 colour illustrations.

ISBN: 9781783745364 , 9781783745371 , 9781783745388 , 9781783745739

Content: "This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski follows the juggler of Notre Dame as he cavorts through new media, including radio, television, and film, becoming closely associated with Christmas and embedded in children's literature. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies."--Publisher's website.

Note: Available through Open Book Publishers. , Contents -- Note to the Reader -- 1. Juggling across Print ; Printed Books as Pseudomanuscripts ; Image-Makers Go Mainstream ; Missal Attack ; Handwriting the Medieval ; Typing a Translation ; Medieval French for Amateurs ; A One-Novel French Novelist ; French Language-Study -- 2. Juggling across New Media ; Making a Spectacle of Miracle ; Sister Beatrice ; Sister Angelica ; Audio Recording ; Silent Film ; Charlie Chaplin: Tramp Meets Tumbler -- 3. Juggling across Faiths ; The Ecumenical Juggler ; The Hasidic Whistle-Blower ; The Jewish Jongleur ; The Catholic Juggler ; The Juggler and the Paulines ; Two Bills: Buckley Jr. and Bennett ; The Lyric Juggler and Patrick Kavanagh ; "The Chapel at Mountain State Mental Hospital" -- 4. The Yuletide Juggler ; Easter Tumbling ; The Commercial Aesthetic of "Ye Olde" ; Noel Juggling: The Gift That Keeps on Giving ; The Juggler in Holiday Books and Cards ; Amateur Theater ; Mass Radio ; Mid-Century Medieval US Television ; Postwar Britain ; The French Connection ; Juggler Film ; Juggler Christmas Books Live On ; Related Stories of the Season -- 5. Children's Juggler and Child Juggler ; Suitable for Children ; Downsizing the Juggler ; American Children's Literature ; European Children's Literature ; Global Children's Entertainment ; Folktale or Faketale? ; Tomie dePaola's The Clown of God -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index. , Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Format: 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-57113-851-X , 1-283-11633-2 , 9786613116338 , 1-57113-817-X

Series Statement: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Content: For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its 'metamorphoses,' to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its representations have multiplied with every political, economic, and technological revolution from the eighteenth century on. Today, in the age of globalization, vampire fictions are more virulent than ever, and the monster enjoys hunting grounds as vast as the international market. 'Metamorphoses of the Vampire' explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms. Erik Butler holds a PhD from Yale University and has taught at Emory University and Swarthmore College. His publications include 'The Bellum Gramaticale and the Rise of European Literature' (2010) and a translation with commentary of 'Regrowth' ('Vidervuks') by the Soviet Jewish author Der Nister (2011).

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). , Part I. The rise of the vampire: Vampire country: borders of culture and power in central Europe; Vampires and satire in the Enlightenment and romanticism -- Part II. England and France: The bourgeois vampire and nineteenth-century identity theft; Dracula: vampiric contagion in the late nineteenth century -- Part III. Germany: Vampirism, the writing cure, and realpolitik: Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my nervous illness; Vampires in Weimar: shades of history -- Conclusion: the vampire in the Americas and beyond. , English

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Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

DOI: 10.1515/9781571138170

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Format: 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781571138170 (ebook)

Content: For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its 'metamorphoses,' to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its representations have multiplied with every political, economic, and technological revolution from the eighteenth century on. Today, in the age of globalization, vampire fictions are more virulent than ever, and the monster enjoys hunting grounds as vast as the international market. 'Metamorphoses of the Vampire' explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms. Erik Butler holds a PhD from Yale University and has taught at Emory University and Swarthmore College. His publications include 'The Bellum Gramaticale and the Rise of European Literature' (2010) and a translation with commentary of 'Regrowth' ('Vidervuks') by the Soviet Jewish author Der Nister (2011).

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). , pt. 1. The rise of the vampire: Vampire country: borders of culture and power in central Europe ; Vampires and satire in the Enlightenment and romanticism -- pt. 2. England and France: The bourgeois vampire and nineteenth-century identity theft ; Dracula: vampiric contagion in the late nineteenth century -- pt. 3. Germany: Vampirism, the writing cure, and realpolitik: Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my nervous illness ; Vampires in Weimar: shades of history -- Conclusion: the vampire in the Americas and beyond.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781571134325

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures , General works

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Format: 1 online resource (604p.)

ISBN: 9783110818116

Series Statement: Fabula / Supplement-Reihe B 3

Note: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I. Introductory -- II. Notes to Introduction -- III. Comparative Notes to Naftoli Gross’s Ma’aselech un Mesholim -- Bibliography -- Appendix I: Jewish Folk-Narrative Lore -- Appendix II: Other Genres of Jewish Folklore -- Addenda -- Table of Tale-Types -- Table of Narrative Motifs -- General Index -- Corrections and Additions -- Backmatter , In English

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110818116

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Format: 1 online resource (604p.)

ISBN: 9783110818116

Series Statement: Fabula / Supplement-Reihe B ; 3

Note: Frontmatter -- , Preface -- , Table of Contents -- , I. Introductory -- , II. Notes to Introduction -- , III. Comparative Notes to Naftoli Gross’s Ma’aselech un Mesholim -- , Bibliography -- , Appendix I: Jewish Folk-Narrative Lore -- , Appendix II: Other Genres of Jewish Folklore -- , Addenda -- , Table of Tale-Types -- , Table of Narrative Motifs -- , General Index -- , Corrections and Additions -- , Backmatter

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110818116

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Format: VIII; 603 S. , 8

Series Statement: Fabula 〈Berlin〉 / B. 1958 -

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Format: xvii, 269 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9781350052147

Content: This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked, with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism. Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters

Note: Introduction. Writing a History of Horror, or What Happens When Monsters Stare Back -- Part One. The Monster Without: Monsters in Jewish-Christian Intercultural Discourse -- Chapter 1. Enge unpathas uncuð gelad: The Long Walk to Freedom -- Chapter 2. Monsters, Demons, and Jews in the Painting of Hieronymus Bosch -- Notes -- Chapter 3. Bestial Bodies on the Jewish Margins: Race, Ethnicity, and Otherness in Medieval Manuscripts Illuminated for Jews -- Chapter 4. Demonic Entanglements: Matted Hair in Medieval and Early Modern, Western, and Eastern Ashkenaz -- Chapter 5. A Jewish Frankenstein: Making Monsters in Modernist German Grotesques -- Chapter 6. From Sexual Enlightenment to Racial Antisemitism: Gender, Sex, and Jewishness in Weimar Cinema's Monsters -- Chapter 7. Monsters in the Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors -- Part Two. The Monster Within: Monsters in Jewish Intracommunal Discourse -- Chapter 8. Unearthing the "Children of Cain": Between Humans, Animals, and Demons in Medieval Jewish Culture -- Chapter 9. Sexuality and Communal Space in Stories about the Marriage of Men and She-Demons -- Chapter 10: The Raging Rabbi: Aggression and Agency in an Early Modern Yiddish Werewolf Tale (Mayse-bukh 1602) -- Chapter 11. Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings -- Chapter 12. Rabbinic Monsters: The World of Wonder and Rabbinic Culture at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 13. "Der Volf" or the Jew as Out(side of the)law

Language: English

Keywords: Europa ; Juden ; Ungeheuer ; Geschichte 800-2000 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Author information: Wiese, Christian 1961-