Writing Jewish Culture - Paradoxes in Ethnography

Informationen zum Autor Andreas Kilcher is a professor at ETH Zurich and author of The Linguistic Theory of Kabbalah as an Aesthetical Paradigm and Dictionary of German-Jewish Literature . Gabriella Safran is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University and author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky . Klappentext With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief. Zusammenfassung With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on Transliteration and Names Introduction / Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran Part 1: Reinventing the "Jews" in Ethnographic Writing 1. The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania / Liliane Weissberg 2. Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S. J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg / Sylvia Jaworski 3. The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" / Andreas Kilcher 4. Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" / Jordan Finkin Part 2: Seeing, Hearing, and Reading Jews 5. Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy / Gabriella Safran 6. Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930) / Annette Werberger 7. Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss / Galit Hasan-Rokem 8. Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das Ostjüdische Antlitz (1920) / Eva Edelmann-Ohler 9. Avant-Garde Authenticity: Ethnography and Identity in Moï Ver's Photobook Ein Ghetto im Osten / Samuel Spinner Part 3: Spaces of Jewish Ethnography between Diaspora and Nation 10. Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898-1904) / Alexander Alon 11. Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora / Tamar Lewinsky Part 4: Politics and the Addressee of Ethnography 12. From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography / Nathaniel Deutsch 13. In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes / Alla Sokolova 14. Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore / Dani Schrire Appendices Note to Readers A. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) / Naftoli Vaynig and Khayim Khayes, Translated by Jordan Finkin B. Research Your Shtetl / H. Aleksandrov, Translated by Jordan Finkin C. "A Strange Experience" / A. Almi, Translated by Gabriella Safran List of Contributors Index...

List of contents

Note on Transliteration and Names

Introduction / Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran

Part 1: Reinventing the "Jews" in Ethnographic Writing

1. The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania / Liliane Weissberg

2. Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S. J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg / Sylvia Jaworski

3. The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" / Andreas Kilcher

4. Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" / Jordan Finkin

Part 2: Seeing, Hearing, and Reading Jews

5. Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy / Gabriella Safran

6. Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930) / Annette Werberger

7. Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss / Galit Hasan-Rokem

8. Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das Ostjüdische Antlitz (1920) / Eva Edelmann-Ohler

9. Avant-Garde Authenticity: Ethnography and Identity in Moï Ver's Photobook Ein Ghetto im Osten / Samuel Spinner

Part 3: Spaces of Jewish Ethnography between Diaspora and Nation

10. Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898-1904) / Alexander Alon

11. Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora / Tamar Lewinsky

Part 4: Politics and the Addressee of Ethnography

12. From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography / Nathaniel Deutsch

13. In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes / Alla Sokolova

14. Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore / Dani Schrire

Appendices

Note to Readers

A. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) / Naftoli Vaynig and Khayim Khayes, Translated by Jordan Finkin

B. Research Your Shtetl / H. Aleksandrov, Translated by Jordan Finkin

C. "A Strange Experience" / A. Almi, Translated by Gabriella Safran

List of Contributors

Index

About the author

Andreas Kilcher is a professor at ETH Zurich and author of The Linguistic Theory of Kabbalah as an Aesthetical Paradigm and Dictionary of German-Jewish Literature.

Gabriella Safran is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University and author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Kilcher, Andreas Safran Kilcher, Gabriella (EDT)/ Kilcher Safran, Gabriella Kilcher Safran
• Assisted by: Edited by Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella (Editor), Andreas Kilcher (Editor), Gabriella Safran (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2016
• EAN: 9780253019622
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01962-2
• No. of pages: 422
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works