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The present essay focuses on a new phase in the evolution of Jewish-American writing which characterized the late 1960s and the 1970s, an era in which the then-current secular, humanist outlook was gradually abandoned in favor of an engagement with ...
Simona Porro
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The present paper discusses the construction of fictional spaces with particular focus on their relationship to history by demonstrating how in Michael Chabon’s alternate history The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a re-configuration of geography corresponds ...
Alice Balestrino
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A rhetorical conversation Jewish discourse and modern Yiddish literature
"Describes the role of traditional Jewish texts in the development of modern Yiddish literature, as well as the closely related development of modern Hebrew literature"--Provided by ...
Finkin, Jordan D. 1976-
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Yiddish periodicals published by displaced persons, 1946-1949
This thesis is intended to demonstrate the existence of a vibrant cultural and literary life among the survivors of the Holocaust during their time as Displaced Persons (DPs) in Germany, Austria and Italy.
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Scrivere la vita di una donna nel XVII secolo
In this paper, I wish to highlight some of the main characteristics of the autobiographic writing by Glikl Hamel (1645-1724), a German Jewess who wrote her memories.
Chava Turniansky
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Le second degré entendu comme réflexivité dans quelques contes d’Europe centrale et orientale
In this paper, the second degree is construed as reflexivity, that is what makes literature refer to itself as opposed to the outside world: the art of story-telling, of keeping quiet which is part and parcel of it, or the art of reading understood as ...
Anne-Marie Monluçon
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Exegetical Poetics: Tanakh and Textuality in Early Modern Yiddish Literature [PDF]
This dissertation examines Yiddish literature (1500-1950) as an alternative, even transgressive, vehicle for the transmission of the Hebrew Bible and classical rabbinic interpretation.
Wamsley, Rachel Alexandra
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NO LETTERS ARRIVE ANYMORE: AMERICAN YIDDISH HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Departments of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, 2022This dissertation examines Yiddish-language poetry composed during the Holocaust and in direct response to news and rumors of the events as they reached
Sidky, Sean
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Remembering the Past in Yiddish
Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on
Norich, Anita
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Exotic Exploits and Contentious Chapters in Modern Yiddish Literature
The Inaugural Diane Feigenson Lectureship in Jewish Literature… Dr. Dovid Katz, Lithuanian-based Yiddish scholar, author, educator, and cultural historian.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1336/thumbnail ...
Katz, Dovid
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