Gabriella (Hrsg.) Safran

Writing Jewish Culture

Paradoxes in Ethnography

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Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of ethnoliterature across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience, readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary d… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kilcher, Andreas (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-253-01964-6
EAN: 9780253019646
Produktnummer: 20454976
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 422 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'340 KB
Abbildungen: 36 b&w illus.

Über den Autor

Andreas Kilcher is a professor at ETH Zurich and author of The Linguistic Theory of Kabbalah as an Aesthetical Paradigm and Dictionary of German-Jewish Literature. Gabriella Safran is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University and author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky.