The German-Hebrew Dialogue: Studies of Encounter and Exchange

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The German-Hebrew Dialogue

Studies of Encounter and Exchange

Edited by: Amir Eshel and Rachel Seelig

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2018

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Volume 6 | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

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In the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, it seemed there was no place for German in Israel and no trace of Hebrew in Germany — the two languages and their cultures appeared as divergent as the directions of their scripts. Yet when placed side by side on opposing pages, German and Hebrew converge in the middle. Comprised of essays on literature, history, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts, this volume explores the mutual influence of two linguistic cultures long held as separate or even as diametrically opposed. From Moses Mendelssohn’s arrival in Berlin in 1748 to the recent wave of Israeli migration to Berlin, the essays gathered here shed new light on the painful yet productive relationship between modern German and Hebrew cultures. 　

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Amir Eshel, Stanford University, USA; Rachel Seelig, The University of Toronto, Canada.

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Editors’ Introduction
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Rachel Seelig and Amir Eshel

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Part One: German-Hebrew Exchange in Modernist Literature
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Not like Cherries, but like Peaches: Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig Translate Yehuda Halevi’s “Ode to Zion”
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Abigail Gillman

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The Flowers of Shame: Avraham Ben Yitzhak’s Hebrew-German “Revival”
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Maya Barzilai

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Dan Pagis’s Laboratory: Between German and Hebrew
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Na’ama Rokem

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Stuttering in Verse: Tuvia Rübner and the Art of Self-Translation
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Rachel Seelig

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Vera Europa vs. Verus Israel: Modern Jews’ Encounter with Europe in Light of Lea Goldberg’s Encounter with a Poet
105
Giddon Ticotsky

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Texts and Objects: The Books of the Schocken Publishing House in the Context of their Time
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Stefanie Mahrer

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איכה /Ach: Lament and Being in Hebrew and German
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Galili Shahar

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Part Two: German-Hebrew Encounters in the Arts Today
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“I write bilingual poetry/in Hebrew and in silence”
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Ruth Ginsburg

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Before the Hebrew Notebook: Kafka’s Words and Gestures in Translation
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Freddie Rokem

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Europe Will Be Stunned: Visualization of a Jewish Return
197
Yael Almog

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“In His Image”: On Dani Karavan’s Artwork in Germany
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Amir Eshel

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Mikan ve’eylakh (From this Point Onward), translated by Rachel Seelig
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Tal Hever-Chybowski

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The Berlin Prize for Hebrew Literature (excerpt from a novel in progress), translated by Rachel Seelig
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Mati Shemoelof

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About the Authors
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December 18, 2017

eBook ISBN:

9783110473384

Hardcover published on:

January 9, 2018

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110471359

Paperback published on:

December 2, 2019

Paperback ISBN:

9783110683738

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263

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110473384

eBook ISBN: 9783110473384

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110471359

Paperback ISBN: 9783110683738

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German-Jewish Relations; Jewish Culture; German Culture; Intercultural Dialogue

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Kulturwissenschaftler, Religionswissenschaftler, Forschende in allen Bereichen der Jüdischen Studien

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The German-Hebrew Dialogue

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Editors’ Introduction

Not like Cherries, but like Peaches: Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig Translate Yehuda Halevi’s “Ode to Zion”

The Flowers of Shame: Avraham Ben Yitzhak’s Hebrew-German “Revival”

Dan Pagis’s Laboratory: Between German and Hebrew

Stuttering in Verse: Tuvia Rübner and the Art of Self-Translation

Vera Europa vs. Verus Israel: Modern Jews’ Encounter with Europe in Light of Lea Goldberg’s Encounter with a Poet

Texts and Objects: The Books of the Schocken Publishing House in the Context of their Time

איכה /Ach: Lament and Being in Hebrew and German

“I write bilingual poetry/in Hebrew and in silence”

Before the Hebrew Notebook: Kafka’s Words and Gestures in Translation

Europe Will Be Stunned: Visualization of a Jewish Return

“In His Image”: On Dani Karavan’s Artwork in Germany

Mikan ve’eylakh (From this Point Onward), translated by Rachel Seelig

The Berlin Prize for Hebrew Literature (excerpt from a novel in progress), translated by Rachel Seelig

About the Authors

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