Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures

Transfer, Mediality and Situativity
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43493-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 94, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

In the past years, reflections on Jewish literatures and theoretical and methodological approaches discussed in Comparative Literature have converged. Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures. Transfer, Mediality and Situativity brings together close readings and contextualizations of Jewish literatures with theories discussed in Comparative and World Literature Studies. The contributions are arranged in five chapters capturing central processes, actors and dynamics in the making of literatures, namely Literary Agents, Literary Figures, Writing Voids, Making of Literatures and Perceiving and Creating Languages. The volume seeks to illuminate the interrelations between literary systems, and to highlight Jewish literatures as a prism for encounters on the levels of text, discourse and culture, and their transformative force.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Terpitz, Olaf

Windsperger, Marianne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Olaf Terpitz and Marianne Windsperger

PART 1

Literary Agents

1 “Folk-lore”, Modernism and Psychoanalysis in the Work of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Aneta Stepien

2 Georg Brandes and the Transnational Vision

Søren Blak Hjortshøj

PART 2

Literary Figures

3 Autobiography as an Intermediary between Russian and Yiddish Literature

Osip Dymov’s Vos ikh gedenk (Zikhroynes)/What I remember (Memoirs)

Thomas Mikula

4 Nokhem Shtif and His Berlin Feuilletons

Holger Nath

5 Literary Figures of Encounter and Transformation

Ambivalences of the “Schlemiel,” the “Schelm” and the “Don Quijote”

Olaf Terpitz

PART 3

Writing Voids

6 Narrating the Other, Discovering the Self?

Recuperations of Yugoslav Jewry in Miljenko Jergovic’s Ruta Tannenbaum

Yvonne Zivkovic

7 “There Is No Need for Thriller Novels about Deportation!”

The Postwar Reception and Criticism of the ‘Literature of Experience’ in Hungary

Tamás Kisantal

8 Georges Perec’s Writing Space

Recherche d’espace perdu

Thomas Nolden

PART 4

Making of Literatures

9 Surfaces of Encounter

Modern Hebrew Literature and Its Readers in the Early Twentieth Century

Lilah Nethanel

10 A Kulturnation in Verse

Yiddish and German Folk Poetry Anthologies in the National Jewish Discourse

Carmen Reichert

PART 5

Perceiving and Creating Languages

11 Past Pastries. Remembering and Rewriting Judeo-Spanish Food Names in Contemporary Literatures

Elisabeth Güde

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Olaf Terpitz is Associate Professor for Jewish Literatures. He has published widely on European-Jewish literatures, including the German edition of Sh. Ansky’s Yiddish diary Der Khurbn in Polen, Galizien und der Bukowina. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg (2019).

Marianne Windsperger has studied Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna and is working on her dissertation on afterlives of Yiddish in contemporary literature. She is a research assistant at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI).