Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture.
Title:
Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture.
Author:
Aleksandrowicz-Pedich, Lucyna.
ISBN:
9783653023893
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (182 pages)
Series:
Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory ; v.2
Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, Małgorzata Pakier -- Levinas Reads Shakespeare. Małgorzata Grzegorzewska -- The Fascist Burden.The Italian Jews in the 20th Century: Identities, Debates, Interpretations. Piotr Podemski -- Drama as a Political Code: Professor Mannheim at the Habima Theater, 1934. Na'ama Sheffi -- 18th c. Hasidic Thought and Contemporary Approachesto Language and Education. Hanna Komorowska -- Empty Spaces. Representations of Poland and the Poles in ProfessionalJ ewish Photography from Western Europe and the USA. Joanna Auron-Górska -- Purity, Charity, Community: The Power of Kashrutin an Orthodox Jewish Neighborhood. Jody Myers -- Golem, Cyborg, Other: Jewish Feminism in Responseto Ecological Degradation in a Cyberpunk Novelof Marge Piercy He, She and It. Justyna Sierakowska -- Jewish Self-Hate:The Phenomenon of Lily Bloom in Will Self's How The Dead Live. Zofia Janowska -- The Topography of the Self in Muriel Spark's The Mandelbaum Gate. Małgorzata Czajka -- The Holocaust and the Israeli-Arab Conflict in Israeli Culture 1950's - 1970's. Liat Steir-Livny -- Recent Israeli Films:A New Option for a Different Israeli HistoryNurith Gertz.
Abstract:
The volume aims to illuminate the issue of Jewish identity in the context of its pre-Holocaust European origins and post-Holocaust American and Israeli settings. Jewish experience and identity construction in Europe, America and Israel are presented through diverse perspectives: Merchant of Venice in the light of Levinas' ethics, Italian Jews in the 20th century, German-speaking Jewish authors in the Nazi 1930s, the Hassidic culture of learning, the representation of contemporary Poland in Jewish photography, Jewish life in America in a kashrut observing Orthodox neighbourhood, Kaballah in feminist cyberpunk fiction by Marge Piercy, constructing Jewish identity in British fiction in novels by Will Self and Muriel Spark, and Israeli films focusing on ethical solutions to political problems.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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