Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures - Transfer, Mediality and Situativity

Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures. Transfer, Mediality and Situativity brings together contributions on Jewish literatures with methodologies and theories discussed in Comparative and World Literature Studies. The contributions highlight dynamic literary processes in various historical and cultural contexts.

About the author

Olaf Terpitz is Associate Professor for Jewish Literatures. He has published widely on European-Jewish literatures, including the German edition of Sh. Ansky's Yiddish diary Der Khurbn in Polen, Galizien und der Bukowina. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg (2019).

Marianne Windsperger has studied Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna and is working on her dissertation on afterlives of Yiddish in contemporary literature. She is a research assistant at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2020
• EAN: 9789004434936
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43493-6
• No. of pages: 294
• Weight: 563 g
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparativ
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies