Author: REGINE. ROSENTHALPublisher:
ISBN: 9781527562554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
EXCLUSION, EXILE, AND THE WANDERING JEW IN JEWISH LITERATURE.
Author: REGINE. ROSENTHALPublisher:
ISBN: 9781527562554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exclusion, Exile, and the Wandering Jew in Jewish Literature
Author: Regine RosenthalPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527562565
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Based on a medieval extrabiblical Christian legend, the figure of the Wandering Jew has long served as a negative representation of all Jews. Condemned by Christ to endless wandering and everlasting life, the Wandering Jew has lived on ever since in literature and criticism as a legendary and symbolic paradigm, ranging from anti-Jewish stereotype to the generalized cultural Other. While Romanticism took him outside of the Jewish context, nineteenth-century antisemitic racism again adopted the figure in an evolving discourse that culminated in his image in Nazi propaganda as the despicable, racialized cultural Other who needed to be exterminated. The present work takes up this trope in all its complex, intersecting facets and shifts the focus of the inquiry from the perspective of the dominant culture to that of the Jewish Other. Starting with nineteenth-century American popular and mainstream writers, it explores the responses to, and the subversions and reinventions of, the paradigmatic figure in works by a variety of European, Canadian, and American Jewish writers and thinkers. It also opens the discussion to the broader issues of contemporary society and politics, such as pervasive uprootedness, transborder migration, the plight of refugees, and states’ rights versus human rights.
The Wandering Jew
Author: Eugène SueExile and the Jews
Author: Nancy E. BergPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827615558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Exile and the Jews anthologizes texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity, from the Hebrew Bible to the present, exploring how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Jewish religion, politics, and identity.
Exile and the Jews
Author: Nancy E. BergPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827619189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought
Author: Bronislava VolkováPublisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN: 1644694077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels—from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wiesel, and Frankl. It follows the typical routes that exiled writers took, from East to West and later often as far as America. The concept and forms of exile are analyzed from many different points of view and great importance is devoted especially to the forms of inner exile. In Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought, Bronislava Volková, an exile herself and thus intimately familiar with the topic through her own experience, develops a unique typology of exile that will enrich the field of intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century Europe and America.
Wandering Jew
Author: Eugène SuePublisher:
ISBN: 9781404340749
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919-?1939 (paperback)
Author: Ilse Josepha LazaromsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004234853
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
In The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919–1939 Ilse Josepha Lazaroms offers an account of the life and intellectual legacy of Joseph Roth, one of interwar Europe's most critical and modern writers.
The Wandering Jew
Author: Moncure Daniel ConwayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Jews and Jewishness in British Children's Literature
Author: Madelyn TravisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136222030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority communities. Representations in children’s literature influenced by the impact of the Enlightenment, the Empire, the Holocaust and 9/11 reveal an ongoing concern with establishing, maintaining or problematising the boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. Chapters on gender, refugees, multiculturalism and historical fiction argue that literature for young people demonstrates that the position of Jews in Britain has been ambivalent, and that this ambivalence has persisted to a surprising degree in view of the dramatic socio-cultural changes that have taken place over two centuries. Wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, Jews and Jewishness in British Children’s Literature discusses over one hundred texts ranging from picture books to young adult fiction and realism to fantasy. Madelyn Travis examines rare eighteenth- and nineteenth-century material plus works by authors including Maria Edgeworth, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, Richmal Crompton, Lynne Reid Banks, Michael Rosen and others. The study also draws on Travis’s previously unpublished interviews with authors including Adele Geras, Eva Ibbotson, Ann Jungman and Judith Kerr.