Yiddish in Jewish-American Literature: An Asset to Teaching at German Universities

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Introduction v
3. Table of Contents xi
4. I Case Studies Spanish and Portuguese Literatures
5. On Integrating Jewish Literature(s) into the Teaching of Early Modern Spanish Literature: Preliminary Thoughts 3
6. The Jewish Auto-Sacramental Plays as Jewish Baroque Drama 9
7. Integrating the Writings of the Western Sephardic Diaspora into the Literature of the Spanish Golden Age 17
8. Post-Essentialist Belonging in Portuguese: Herberto Helder (1930–2015) 25
9. II Case Studies German, Turkish and Arabic Literatures
10. A Few Remarks about Teaching Jewish Turkish Literature 37
11. Teaching Literatures by Arabized Jews: Medieval and Modern 45
12. Dissenting Narratives – The Figure of the ‘Arab Jew’ in Contemporary Arabic Literature and Film 53
13. German-Jewish Literature: An Interruption 69
14. Reading Kafka in Turkey 81
15. Unraveling Heimat – Recontextualizing Gertrud Kolmar’s Das preußische Wappenbuch 89
16. III Case Studies American and English Literatures
17. Configurations of Jewishness in Modernism: Woolf and Joyce 103
18. Planetarity in the Global? Modern Jewish Literature in English 115
19. Yiddish in Jewish-American Literature: An Asset to Teaching at German Universities 127
20. Affiliated Identities as a Design Tool for a Jewish Literature Course 135
21. IV Case Studies French and Italian Literatures
22. Case Study: Belonging in Dialogue. How to Integrate Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida in French Literary Studies 143
23. Teaching Contemporary French Literature: The Case of Cécile Wajsbrot 153
24. Ways to integrate Jewish Literature into the Broader Context of Academic Teaching 159
25. Redefining and Integrating Jewish Writers into the Study of Historical Avant-Garde(s) 169
26. Primo Levi: Between Literature and the World 183
27. V Case Studies Latin American Literatures
28. A Case Study in Latin American Literature: Ilan Stavans’ On Borrowed Words 197
29. Jewish Latin American Literary Studies: Between Old Challenges and New Paradigms 205
30. An Historical Approach to Contemporary Brazilian Literature: The Example of Bernardo Kucinski 213
31. On Integrating Jewish Literatures into Teaching and Research 221
32. VI Case Studies Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures
33. Jewish Writing and Gender between the National and the Transnational 229
34. Producing Radical Presence: Yiddish Literature in Twenty-first Century Israel 235
35. The Unhomely In/Of Hebrew Literature 243
36. The Yiddish Roots of Modern Jewish Writing in Europe and America 251
37. The Place of Hebrew: Maya Arad’s Another Place, a Foreign City 257
38. VII Case Studies Russian, Eastern European and Hungarian Literatures
39. Traces, Memories: On Péter Nádas 269
40. Osip Mandelstam’s Postmultilingual Condition 281
41. About the Integration of Jewish Literatures into Slavonic Studies 287
42. Polish Jewish Literature: A Brief History, Theoretical Framework, and a Teaching Example 295