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edocfu_9958352409902883
Format:
1 online resource(336p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. , 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9780812291032
Series Statement:
Jewish Culture and Contexts
Content:
Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction. A New Look at East European Jewish Culture /
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1. Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648–1649 and the Creation of a Polish-Jewish Consciousness /
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2. ‘‘Civil Christians’’: Debates on the Reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789–1830 /
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3. The Botched Kiss and the Beginnings of the Yiddish Stage /
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4. The Polish Popular Novel and Jewish Modernization at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries /
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5. Cul-de-Sac: The ‘‘Inner Life of Jews’’ on the Fin-de-Sie`cle Polish Stage /
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6. Yosef Haim Brenner, the ‘‘Half-Intelligentsia,’’ and Russian-Jewish Politics, 1898–1908 /
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7. Recreating Jewish Identity in Haim Nahman Bialik’s Poems: The Russian Context /
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8. Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917–1919 /
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9. Beyond the Purim-shpil: Reinventing the Scroll of Esther in Modern Yiddish Poems /
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10. Revealing and Concealing the Soviet Jewish Self: The Desk-Drawer Memoirs of Meir Viner /
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11. The Shtetl Subjunctive: Yaffa Eliach’s Living History Museum /
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List of Contributors --
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Index.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812291032
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291032
