Title Culture front : representing Jews in Eastern Europe / edited by Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran

Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008] ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) Series Jewish culture and contexts Jewish culture and contexts. Contents Introduction : a new look at East European Jewish culture / Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran -- Jewish literary responses to the events of 1648-1649 and the creation of a Polish-Jewish consciousness / Adam Teller -- "Civil Christians" : debates on the reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789-1830 / Marcin Wodziński -- The botched kiss and the beginnings of the Yiddish stage / Alyssa Quint -- The Polish popular novel and Jewish modernization at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries / Eugenia Prokop-Janiec -- Cul-de-sac : the "inner life of Jews" on the fin-de-siècle Polish stage / Michael C. Steinlauf -- Yosef Haim Brenner, the "half-intelligentsia," and Russian-Jewish politics, 1899-1908 / Jonathan Frankel -- Recreating Jewish identity in Haim Nahman Bialik's poems : the Russian context / Hamutal Bar-Yosef -- Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote : translation, deparochialization, and nationalism in Jewish culture, 1917-1919 / Kenneth B. Moss -- Beyond the Purim-shpil : reinventing the Scroll of Esther in modern Yiddish poems / Kathryn Hellerstein -- Revealing and concealing the Soviet Jewish self : the desk-drawer memoirs of Meir Viner / Marcus Mosefly -- The shtetl subjunctive : Yaffa Eliach's living history museum / Jeffrey Shandler Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Civilization East European literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism Jews in literature. RELIGION -- Judaism -- History. Civilization Civilization -- Jewish influences Jews -- Civilization Jews in literature Judenbild Kultur Literatur Slavic countries -- Civilization -- Jewish influences. Europe, Eastern -- Civilization. Eastern Europe Slavic countries Osteuropa Juden. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Nathans, Benjamin, editor. Safran, Gabriella, 1967- editor. ISBN 9780812291032 0812291034

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