The trilingual literature of Polish Jews from different perspectives
Subtitle: in memory of I.L. Peretz
By: edited by Alina Molisak and Shoshana Ronen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781443891318; 9781527502673
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: History and criticism; Polish literature; Jewish authors; Yiddish literature; Hebrew literature; Jewish literature; Juden; Literatur; Polnisch; Jiddisch; Hebräisch
Description: Are the literary works of Polish Jews one unified literature in three languages: Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish, or is the literal corpus of each of these languages a separated literary and cultural phenomenon? Twenty-seven scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel explore different aspects of the multilingual literature of Eastern European Jews, with a particular focus on the trilingual literature of Polish Jews until World War II. The work of the great Yiddish and Hebrew writer Isaac Leib Peretz (1852{u2013}1915) represents the center of the book, though it does not concentrate solely on Peretz{u2019}s work, but, rather, discusses the oeuvre of other unique authors in the cultural space of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe generally, and in Poland particularly. The book looks at this issue from three aspects, namely the literal, cultural, and historical, and also examines the dialogue of Polish Jewish literature with other languages and cultures. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Preface / Alina Molisak and Shoshana Ronen; title: Instead of a prologue: I.L. Peretz as the poet of the Jewish age of sensibility: on the century of his death 1915-2015 / Dan Miron; title: Part 1 Literature; title: 1 The Harp by I.L. Peretz and the controversy over Hebrew love poetry / Avner Holtzman; title: 2 Poezye Un Lebn: a note on Manger's self concept as literary successor of I.L. Peretz / Efrat Gal-Ed; title: 3 The two facets of Lamed Shapiro and Isaac Leib Peretz / Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota; title: 4 No more Jews, no more demons: another look into Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Last Demon / Hagai Dagan; title: 5 Haim Lenski: Seemingly romantic, essentially modernist / Vered Ariel-Nahari; title: 6 A town on the edge of the centuries: avant-garde and tradition in the work of Bruno Schulz / Andrzej Zieniewicz; title: 7 Elijah the prophet: Leśmian and the interwar Polish-Jewish poets / Alina Molisak; title: 8 Jewishness in Tuwim's early poems / Birgit Krehl; title: Part 2 Culture; title: 9 Polish-Jewish literature and modernity / Eugenia Prokop-Janiec; title: 10 Julian Klaczko: religious or cultural conversion? / Stanisław Obirek; title: 11 Integration, history and literature / Zuzanna Kołodziejska-Smagała; title: 12 Peretz on the Froyen-Frage / Joanna Lisek; title: 13 The quadrilingual writings of Yehoshua Ozjasz Thon / Shoshana Ronen; title: 14 Night at the Old Market versus The Dybbuk: two traditions at the genesis of Jewish theater / Zahava Caspi; title: 15 Some reflections on Hebrew preudonyms of Yiddish writers: meaning of the (seemingly) meaningless / Sharon Bar-Kochva; title: 16 Shakespeare in Warsaw: H. Y. Borstein's Hebrew version of Hamlet / Aminadav Dykman; title: 17 "Writers were like gods to me": I.L. Peretz and the new Jewish visual culture / Renata Piątkowska; title: Part 3 History; title: 19 I.L. Peretz's part in the Warsaw Yiddish publishing arena / Nathan Cohen; title: 20 Warsaw and the development of Jewish literature for the masses in the late nineteenth century / Ela Bauer; title: 21 "To be a fighter with both fists!": Peretz as a radical Hebrew writer / Adi Mahalel; title: 22 I. L. Peretz between Warsaw and Odessa / Ruth Adler; title: Part 4 Preceptions from the outside; title: 23 Between east and west and back: some aspects of the recption of I.L. Peretz's work in German speaking Jewish culture / Peter Sh. Lehnardt; title: 24 Peretz in Italy: a peripheral point of view / Laura Quercioli Mincer; title: 25 I.L. Peretz in Romanian translation: a historical approach to his reception / Camelia Crăciun; title: Instead of an epilogue: literature of the mouth and the ear and literature of the eye: a reexamination of modern Hebrew literature / Yigal Schwartz.