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1 online resource (410 pages) |
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Preface / Alina Molisak and Shoshana Ronen -- Instead of a prologue: I.L. Peretz as the poet of the Jewish age of sensibility: on the century of his death 1915-2015 / Dan Miron -- Part 1 Literature -- 1 The Harp by I.L. Peretz and the controversy over Hebrew love poetry / Avner Holtzman -- 2 Poezye Un Lebn: a note on Manger's self concept as literary successor of I.L. Peretz / Efrat Gal-Ed -- 3 The two facets of Lamed Shapiro and Isaac Leib Peretz / Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota -- 4 No more Jews, no more demons: another look into Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Last Demon / Hagai Dagan -- 5 Haim Lenski: Seemingly romantic, essentially modernist / Vered Ariel-Nahari -- 6 A town on the edge of the centuries: avant-garde and tradition in the work of Bruno Schulz / Andrzej Zieniewicz -- 7 Elijah the prophet: Leśmian and the interwar Polish-Jewish poets / Alina Molisak -- 8 Jewishness in Tuwim's early poems / Birgit Krehl -- Part 2 Culture -- 9 Polish-Jewish literature and modernity / Eugenia Prokop-Janiec -- 10 Julian Klaczko: religious or cultural conversion? / Stanisław Obirek -- 11 Integration, history and literature / Zuzanna Kołodziejska-Smagała -- 12 Peretz on the Froyen-Frage / Joanna Lisek -- 13 The quadrilingual writings of Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon / Shoshana Ronen -- 14 Night at the Old Market versus The Dybbuk: two traditions at the genesis of Jewish theater / Zahava Caspi -- 15 Some reflections on Hebrew preudonyms of Yiddish writers: meaning of the (seemingly) meaningless / Sharon Bar-Kochva -- 16 Shakespeare in Warsaw: H. Y. Borstein's Hebrew version of Hamlet / Aminadav Dykman -- 17 "Writers were like gods to me": I.L. Peretz and the new Jewish visual culture / Renata Piątkowska -- Part 3 History -- 19 I.L. Peretz's part in the Warsaw Yiddish publishing arena / Nathan Cohen -- 20 Warsaw and the development of Jewish literature for the masses in the late nineteenth century / Ela Bauer -- 21 "To be a fighter with both fists!": Peretz as a radical Hebrew writer / Adi Mahalel -- 22 I. L. Peretz between Warsaw and Odessa / Ruth Adler -- Part 4 Preceptions from the outside -- 23 Between east and west and back: some aspects of the recption of I.L. Peretz's work in German speaking Jewish culture / Peter Sh. Lehnardt -- 24 Peretz in Italy: a peripheral point of view / Laura Quercioli Mincer -- 25 I.L. Peretz in Romanian translation: a historical approach to his reception / Camelia Crăciun -- Instead of an epilogue: literature of the mouth and the ear and literature of the eye: a reexamination of modern Hebrew literature / Yigal Schwartz |
Summary |
Are the literary works of Polish Jews one unified literature in three languages: Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish, or is the literal corpus of each of these languages a separated literary and cultural phenomenon? Twenty-seven scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel explore different aspects of the multilingual literature of Eastern European Jews, with a particular focus on the trilingual literature of Polish Jews until World War II. The work of the great Yiddish and Hebrew writer Isaac Leib Peretz (1852-1915) represents the center of the book, though it does not concentrate solely on Pere |
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ContributorsIndex of Names |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1851 or 1852-1915 -- History and criticism
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Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1851 or 1852-1915 fast |
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Peretz, Isaac Leib 1852-1915 gnd |
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Polish literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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Yiddish literature -- Poland -- History and criticism
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Hebrew literature -- Poland -- History and criticism
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Jewish literature -- Poland -- History and criticism
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Literature & literary studies.
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Cultural studies.
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Religion: general.
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Hebrew literature
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Jewish literature
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Polish literature -- Jewish authors
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Yiddish literature
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Juden
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Literatur
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Polnisch
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Jiddisch
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Hebräisch
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Poland
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Polen
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Ronen, Shoshana
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ISBN |
9781527502673 |
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1527502678 |
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