Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures – serie
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Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures
Comparative Perspectives
Av Anita Norich, Joshua L Miller
Häftad, 2016
439 kr
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This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish …
Never Better!
The Modern Jewish Picaresque
Av Miriam Udel
Häftad, 2016
353 kr
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It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel …
Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures
Comparative Perspectives
Av Anita Norich, Joshua L Miller
Inbunden, 2016
1527 kr
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This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish …
Strangers in Berlin
Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919–1933
Inbunden, 2016
896 kr
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Berlin in the 1920s was a cosmopolitan hub where for a brief, vibrant moment German-Jewish writers crossed paths with Hebrew and Yiddish migrant writers. Working against the prevailing tendency to view German and East European Jewish cultures as separate fields of study, Strangers in Berlin is the …
Strange Cocktail
Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry
Inbunden, 2018
1369 kr
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For centuries, poets have turned to translation for creative inspiration. Through and in translation, poets have introduced new poetic styles, languages, and forms into their own writing, sometimes changing the course of literary history in the process. Strange Cocktail is the first comprehensive …
Franz Kafka
Subversive Dreamer
Av Michael Lowy
Häftad, 2016
405 kr
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Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer is an attempt to identify and properly contextualize the social critique in Kafka’s biography and work that links father-son antagonisms, heterodox Jewish religious thinking, and anti-authoritarian or anarchist protest against the rising power of bureaucratic …
Never Better!
The Modern Jewish Picaresque
Av Miriam Udel
Inbunden, 2016
1212 kr
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It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel …
Franz Kafka
Subversive Dreamer
Av Michael Lowy
Inbunden, 2016
1212 kr
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Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer is an attempt to identify and properly contextualize the social critique in Kafka’s biography and work that links father-son antagonisms, heterodox Jewish religious thinking, and anti-authoritarian or anarchist protest against the rising power of bureaucratic …
Nothing Happened
Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide
Inbunden, 2013
1226 kr
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Charlotte Salomon's (1917-43) fantastical autobiography, Life? or Theater?, consists of 769 sequenced gouache paintings, through which the artist imagined the circumstances of the eight suicides in her family, all but one of them women. But Salomon's focus on suicide was not merely a familial …
