Spiritual Homelands: The Cultural Experience of Exile, Place and Displacement among Jews and Others

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Spiritual Homelands

The Cultural Experience of Exile, Place and Displacement among Jews and Others

Edited by: Asher D. Biemann , Richard I. Cohen and Sarah E. Wobick-Segev

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 12 | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

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Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of boundary crossings and of desired places and alternate identities, into a world of adopted kin and invented allegiances.

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Asher D. Biemann, University of Virginia, USA; Richard I. Cohen and Sarah E. Wobick-Segev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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Introduction
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Asher D. Biemann, Richard I. Cohen and Sarah E. Wobick-Segev

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Part 1: Exile and Erasures
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The End of Exile? The Metz Contest of 1787 Revisited
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Pierre Birnbaum

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Remembering/Imagining Palestine from Afar: The (Lost) Homeland in Contemporary Palestinian Diaspora Literature
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Nina Fischer

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Part 2: Writing the Homeland
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Worlds, Words, and Womanhood: Gina Kaus and the Formation of a Spiritual Homeland
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Regina Range

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Performing Homeland in Post-Vernacular Times: Dzigan and Shumacher’s Yiddish Theater after the Holocaust
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Diego Rotman

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Part 3: Language in Exile
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The World as Exile and the Word as Homeland in the Writing of Boris Khazanov
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Stefani Hoffman

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Uncovering Accent and Belonging in Juan Gelman’s Dibaxu
129
Judith K. Lang Hilgartner

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Part 4: Multiple Exiles, Contingent Homelands
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France as Wahlheimat for Two German Jews: Heinrich Heine and Walter Benjamin
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Jeffrey A. Grossman

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The Girl from the Golden Horn: Kurban Said / Lev Nussinbaum’s Vision of Home and Exile in Interbellum Berlin
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H. Esra Almas

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“In der Fremde zu hause”: Contingent Cosmopolitanism and Elective Exile in the Writing of Hans Keilson
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Anna M. Parkinson

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Part 5: Of Other Spaces: Travel and Trauma
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Israel as a Place of Trauma and Desire in Contemporary German Jewish Literature
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Agnes C. Mueller

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Paper Existences: Passports and Literary Imagination
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Doerte Bischoff

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Neither Heimat nor Exile: The Perception of Paris as a Historical Blind Spot in Three Israeli Novels
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Judith Müller

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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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December 2, 2019

eBook ISBN:

9783110637564

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December 2, 2019

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9783110637366

Paperback published on:

January 31, 2022

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9783110777468

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310

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637564

eBook ISBN: 9783110637564

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110637366

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Exile studies; Jewish studies; literary studies; cultural studies

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Researchers, students.

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Spiritual Homelands

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

The End of Exile? The Metz Contest of 1787 Revisited

Remembering/Imagining Palestine from Afar: The (Lost) Homeland in Contemporary Palestinian Diaspora Literature

Worlds, Words, and Womanhood: Gina Kaus and the Formation of a Spiritual Homeland

Performing Homeland in Post-Vernacular Times: Dzigan and Shumacher’s Yiddish Theater after the Holocaust

The World as Exile and the Word as Homeland in the Writing of Boris Khazanov

Uncovering Accent and Belonging in Juan Gelman’s Dibaxu

France as Wahlheimat for Two German Jews: Heinrich Heine and Walter Benjamin

The Girl from the Golden Horn: Kurban Said / Lev Nussinbaum’s Vision of Home and Exile in Interbellum Berlin

“In der Fremde zu hause”: Contingent Cosmopolitanism and Elective Exile in the Writing of Hans Keilson

Israel as a Place of Trauma and Desire in Contemporary German Jewish Literature

Paper Existences: Passports and Literary Imagination

Neither Heimat nor Exile: The Perception of Paris as a Historical Blind Spot in Three Israeli Novels

Notes on Contributors

Index

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