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Author:   Olaf Terpitz ,  Marianne Windsperger
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   94
Weight:   0.563kg
ISBN:  

9789004434936

ISBN 10:   9004434933
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   24 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Olaf Terpitz and Marianne Windsperger PART 1 Literary Agents 1 “Folk-lore”, Modernism and Psychoanalysis in the Work of Isaac Bashevis Singer  Aneta Stepien 2 Georg Brandes and the Transnational Vision  Søren Blak Hjortshøj PART 2  Literary Figures 3 Autobiography as an Intermediary between Russian and Yiddish Literature Osip Dymov’s Vos ikh gedenk (Zikhroynes)/What I remember (Memoirs)  Thomas Mikula 4 Nokhem Shtif and His Berlin Feuilletons  Holger Nath 5 Literary Figures of Encounter and Transformation Ambivalences of the “Schlemiel,” the “Schelm” and the “Don Quijote”  Olaf Terpitz PART 3 Writing Voids 6 Narrating the Other, Discovering the Self?  Recuperations of Yugoslav Jewry in Miljenko Jergovic’s Ruta Tannenbaum  Yvonne Zivkovic 7 “There Is No Need for Thriller Novels about Deportation!” The Postwar Reception and Criticism of the ‘Literature of Experience’ in Hungary  Tamás Kisantal 8 Georges Perec’s Writing Space Recherche d’espace perdu  Thomas Nolden PART 4 Making of Literatures 9 Surfaces of Encounter Modern Hebrew Literature and Its Readers in the Early Twentieth Century  Lilah Nethanel 10 A Kulturnation in Verse Yiddish and German Folk Poetry Anthologies in the National Jewish Discourse  Carmen Reichert PART 5 Perceiving and Creating Languages 11 Past Pastries. Remembering and Rewriting Judeo-Spanish Food Names in Contemporary Literatures  Elisabeth Güde Index

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Olaf Terpitz is Associate Professor for Jewish Literatures. He has published widely on European-Jewish literatures, including the German edition of Sh. Ansky’s Yiddish diary Der Khurbn in Polen, Galizien und der Bukowina. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg (2019). Marianne Windsperger has studied Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna and is working on her dissertation on afterlives of Yiddish in contemporary literature. She is a research assistant at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI).

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