Women’s Oral Laments: Corpus and Text – The Body in the Text

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Frequently Used Abbreviations xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Bibliography xvii
7. Section One: Lament and Consolation
8. Eikhah and the Stance of Lamentation 3
9. Ein Menachem: On Lament and Consolation 11
10. Section Two: Lament and Gender
11. Bodies Performing in Ruins: The Lamenting Mother in Ancient Hebrew Texts 33
12. Women’s Oral Laments: Corpus and Text – The Body in the Text 65
13. Section Three: The Linguistic Form of Lament
14. Bemerkungen zur Klage 89
15. “Incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech”: Scholem, Benjamin, and Cohen on Lament 111
16. Section Four: Silence and Lament
17. The Unfallen Silence: Kinah and the Other Origin of Language 133
18. The Silent Syllable: On Franz Rosenzweig’s Translation of Yehuda Halevi’s Liturgical Poems 153
19. Silence, Solitude, and Suicide: Gershom Scholem’s Paradoxical Theory of Lamentation 173
20. Section Five: The Poetry of Lament
21. The Role of Lamentation for Scholem’s Theory of Poetry and Language 185
22. The Ghost of the Poet: Lament in Walter Benjamin’s Early Poetry, Theory, and Translation 205
23. Words and Corpses: Celan’s “Tenebrae” between Gadamer and Scholem 221
24. “Movement of Language” and Transience: Lament, Mourning, and the Tradition of Elegy in Early Scholem 237
25. Section Six: Mourning, Ruin and Lament
26. Paradoxes of Lament: Benjamin and Hamlet 257
27. The Tradition in Ruins: Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem on Language and Lament 277
28. Section Seven: Translations of Gershom Scholem’s Texts on Lament
29. Translators’ Introduction 305
30. On Lament and Lamentation 313
31. Job’s Lament 321
32. Translation of Job Chapter 3: Job’s Lament 324
33. Ezekiel Chapter 19: A Lamentation for Israel’s Last Princes 329
34. Translation of Ezekiel Chapter 19: A Lamentation for Israel’s Last Princes 332
35. A Medieval Lamentation 337
36. Translation of Sha’ali Serufa: A Medieval Lamentation 340
37. Scholem’s postscript in the manuscript version 349
38. Notes on Contributors 351