Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
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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.
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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.
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Contents: Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich/ Malgorzata Pakier: Introduction - Malgorzata Grzegorzewska: Levinas Reads Shakespeare - Piotr Podemski: The Fascist Burden. The Italian Jews in the 20th Century: Identities, Debates, Interpretations - Na'ama Sheffi: Drama as a Political Code: Professor Mannheim at the Habima Theater, 1934 - Hanna Komorowska: 18th c. Hassidic Thought and Contemporary Approaches to Language and Education - Joanna Auron-Górska: Empty Spaces. Representations of Poland and the Poles in Professional Jewish Photography from Western Europe and the USA - Jody Myers: Purity, Charity, Community: The Power of Kashrut in an Orthodox Jewish Neighborhood - Justyna Sierakowska: Golem, Cyborg, Other: Jewish Feminism in Response to Ecological Degradation in a Cyberpunk Novel of Marge Piercy He, She and It - Zofia Janowska: Jewish Self-Hate: The Phenomenon of Lily Bloom in Will Self's How the Dead Live - Malgorzata Czajka: The Topography of the Self in Muriel Spark's The Mandelbaum Gate - Liat Steir-Livny: The Holocaust and the Israeli-Arab Conflict in Israeli Culture. 1950's-1970's - Nurith Gertz: Recent Israeli Films: A New Option for a Different Israeli History.
Autoren-Porträt
Lucyna Aleksandrowicz- Pedich is Associate Professor at SWPS - Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, teaching American literature and cross-cultural communication. Her main research interest is in Jewish-American writers.Malgorzata Pakier is Assistant Professor at SWPS - Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and is active in planning the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Her research interests include Holocaust memory, Polish and German cinema, cultural memory and mass media.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2012, 184 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich, Malgorzata Pakier
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 3631622295
- ISBN-13: 9783631622292
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.10.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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