Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde: Between Rebellion and Revelation

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Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde

Between Rebellion and Revelation

Edited by: Mark H. Gelber and Sami Sjöberg

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Volume 5 | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

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This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings linked to elements from Judaism or Jewish culture, thought, or history.

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Mark H. Gelber, Ben Gurion University, Israel; Sami Sjöberg, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Introduction Sami Sjöberg and Mark H. Gelber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
The Avant-Garde and Jewish Traditions
Dada Judaism: The Avant-Garde in First World War Zurich Alfred Bodenheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Jews and the Avant-Garde: The Case of Romania Radu Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
Towards an Ahistorical Jewishness: The Idea of Jewish Essence in the German-Jewish Avant-Garde Sami Sjöberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Community Building and Cultural Conflicts
Carl Einstein, Jewishness, and the Communities of the European Avant-Garde Andreas Kramer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
Challenging the Literary Community: The Warsaw Yiddish Avant-Garde and Khalyastre Laëtitia Tordjman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Modern Jewish Sculptors and the Cultural Policy of the USSR in the 1920s–1930s Maria Silina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
Self-Representation and Anti-Semitism
Frontière humaine: Race, Nation, and the Shape of Representation in Claude Cahun Zoë Roth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Arnold Schoenberg’s Jewish Veil: The Workings of Anti-Semitic Rhetoric in Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18 (1913) Alana Sobelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
Saints and Tsadikim – The Religious Syncretism of Jewish Expressionism Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
Between Ecstasy and Lament: Revelationism and Messianism in Epstein and Godard Tom Paulus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
The Mad Book: Der Nister as Unreliable Author in From my Estate (1929) Raphael Koenig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
The Role of Judaism in Benjamin Fondane’s Existential Philosophy Olivier Salazar-Ferrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Jews in the Avant-Garde: A Historical Perspective
The Avant-Garde and the Jews Steven E. Aschheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275

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eBook published on:

July 19, 2017

eBook ISBN:

9783110454956

Hardcover published on:

July 24, 2017

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110336924

Paperback published on:

July 8, 2019

Paperback ISBN:

9783110651775

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Front matter:

7

Main content:

277

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110454956

eBook ISBN: 9783110454956

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110336924

Paperback ISBN: 9783110651775

Keywords for this book

Avant-garde Movements; Modern Jewish Culture; Jewish Thought

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Religionswissenschaftler, Literaturwissenschaftler, Forscher zu allen Gebieten der Jüdischen Studien

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