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Disseminating Jewish Literatures

Knowledge, Research, Curricula
  • Edited by: Susanne Zepp , Ruth Fine , Natasha Gordinsky , Kader Konuk , Claudia Olk and Galili Shahar
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2020
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The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing across the globe demands a collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary investigation into questions regarding methods of researching and teaching literatures. Disseminating Jewish Literatures compiles case studies that represent a broad range of epistemological and textual approaches to the curricula and research programs of literature departments in Europe, Israel, and the United States. In doing so, it promotes the integration of Jewish literatures into national philologies and the implementation of comparative, transnational approaches to the reading, teaching, and researching of literatures. Instead of a dichotomizing approach, Disseminating Jewish Literatures endorses an exhaustive, comprehensive conceptualization of the Jewish literary corpus across languages. Included in this volume are essays on literatures in Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish, as well as essays reflecting the fields of Yiddish philology and Latin American studies. The volume is based on the papers presented at the Gentner Symposium funded by the Minerva Foundation, held at the Freie Universität Berlin in June 2018.

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Susanne Zepp, Free University of Berlin, Germany et al.

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Introduction

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Table of Contents

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I Case Studies Spanish and Portuguese Literatures
On Integrating Jewish Literature(s) into the Teaching of Early Modern Spanish Literature: Preliminary Thoughts

Or Hasson
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The Jewish Auto-Sacramental Plays as Jewish Baroque Drama

Einat Davidi
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Integrating the Writings of the Western Sephardic Diaspora into the Literature of the Spanish Golden Age

Ruth Fine
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Post-Essentialist Belonging in Portuguese: Herberto Helder (1930–2015)

Susanne Zepp
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II Case Studies German, Turkish and Arabic Literatures
A Few Remarks about Teaching Jewish Turkish Literature

Laurent Mignon
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Teaching Literatures by Arabized Jews: Medieval and Modern

Lukas Muehlethaler
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Dissenting Narratives – The Figure of the ‘Arab Jew’ in Contemporary Arabic Literature and Film

Najat Abdulhaq
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German-Jewish Literature: An Interruption

Galili Shahar
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Reading Kafka in Turkey

Kader Konuk
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Unraveling Heimat – Recontextualizing Gertrud Kolmar’s Das preußische Wappenbuch

Shira Miron
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III Case Studies American and English Literatures
Configurations of Jewishness in Modernism: Woolf and Joyce

Claudia Olk
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Planetarity in the Global? Modern Jewish Literature in English

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

Pascal Fischer
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Affiliated Identities as a Design Tool for a Jewish Literature Course

David Hadar
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IV Case Studies French and Italian Literatures
Case Study: Belonging in Dialogue. How to Integrate Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida in French Literary Studies

Sara Sohrabi
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Teaching Contemporary French Literature: The Case of Cécile Wajsbrot

Stephanie Bung
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Ways to integrate Jewish Literature into the Broader Context of Academic Teaching

Nourit Melcer-Padon
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Redefining and Integrating Jewish Writers into the Study of Historical Avant-Garde(s)

Iulia Dondorici
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Primo Levi: Between Literature and the World

Uri S. Cohen
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V Case Studies Latin American Literatures
A Case Study in Latin American Literature: Ilan Stavans’ On Borrowed Words

Verena Dolle
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Jewish Latin American Literary Studies: Between Old Challenges and New Paradigms

Amalia Ran
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An Historical Approach to Contemporary Brazilian Literature: The Example of Bernardo Kucinski

Laura Rivas Gagliardi
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On Integrating Jewish Literatures into Teaching and Research

Saúl Sosnowski
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VI Case Studies Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures
Jewish Writing and Gender between the National and the Transnational

Allison Schachter
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Producing Radical Presence: Yiddish Literature in Twenty-first Century Israel

Hannah Pollin-Galay
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The Unhomely In/Of Hebrew Literature

Iris Milner
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The Yiddish Roots of Modern Jewish Writing in Europe and America

David Stromberg
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The Place of Hebrew: Maya Arad’s Another Place, a Foreign City

Adriana X. Jacobs
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VII Case Studies Russian, Eastern European and Hungarian Literatures
Traces, Memories: On Péter Nádas

Lilla Balint
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Osip Mandelstam’s Postmultilingual Condition

Natasha Gordinsky
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About the Integration of Jewish Literatures into Slavonic Studies

Klavdia Smola
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Polish Jewish Literature: A Brief History, Theoretical Framework, and a Teaching Example

Agnieszka Hudzik
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110619003
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Education; Jewish literature; multilingualism
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