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Writing Jewish Culture : Paradoxes in Ethnography.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (426 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253019646
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writing Jewish CultureDDC classification:
  • 305.892/4047
LOC classification:
  • DS135.E83W75 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Names -- Introduction -- PART 1. REINVENTING THE "JEWS" IN ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING -- 1. The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania -- 2. Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S. J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg -- 3. The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" -- 4. Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" -- PART 2. SEEING, HEARING, AND READING JEWS -- 5. Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy -- 6. Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930) -- 7. Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Leon Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss -- 8. Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das ostjüdische Antlitz (1920) -- 9. Avant-Garde Authenticity: M. Vorobeichic's Photographic Modernism and the East European Jew -- PART 3. SPACES OF JEWISH ETHNOGRAPHY BETWEEN DIASPORA AND NATION -- 10. Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898-1904) -- 11. Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora -- PART 4. POLITICS AND THE ADDRESSEE OF ETHNOGRAPHY -- 12. From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography -- 13. In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes -- 14. Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore -- APPENDIXES -- Note to Readers -- Appendix A. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) -- Appendix B. Research Your Shtetl! -- Appendix C. "A Strange Experience" -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H.
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Summary: With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Names -- Introduction -- PART 1. REINVENTING THE "JEWS" IN ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING -- 1. The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania -- 2. Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S. J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg -- 3. The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" -- 4. Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" -- PART 2. SEEING, HEARING, AND READING JEWS -- 5. Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy -- 6. Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930) -- 7. Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Leon Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss -- 8. Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das ostjüdische Antlitz (1920) -- 9. Avant-Garde Authenticity: M. Vorobeichic's Photographic Modernism and the East European Jew -- PART 3. SPACES OF JEWISH ETHNOGRAPHY BETWEEN DIASPORA AND NATION -- 10. Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898-1904) -- 11. Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora -- PART 4. POLITICS AND THE ADDRESSEE OF ETHNOGRAPHY -- 12. From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography -- 13. In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes -- 14. Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore -- APPENDIXES -- Note to Readers -- Appendix A. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) -- Appendix B. Research Your Shtetl! -- Appendix C. "A Strange Experience" -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H.

I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.

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