Author: Evelyn Torton BeckPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Kafka and the Yiddish Theater
Author: Evelyn Torton BeckPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Vagabond Stars
Author: Nahma SandrowPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815603290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Proceedings of a May 1994 symposium held to present cutting edge multidisciplinary work on the characterization of ancient materials; the technologies of selection, production, and usage by which materials are transformed into the objects and artifacts we find today; the science underlying their deterioration, preservation, and conservation; and sociocultural interpretation derived from an empirical methodology of observation, measurement, and experimentation. Over 70 contributions discuss topics that include the visual appearance and the imitation of one material by another; stable protective coatings and materials stability; resource surveying, source characterization, and cultural implications; and process reconstruction as essential to understanding of condition and conservation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Agamben's Joyful Kafka
Author: Anke SnoekPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1628921323
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The first book to articulate the impact of Kafka on Agamben's thought
The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater
Author: Alyssa QuintPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253038626
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Jewish Book Award Finalist: “Turns the fascinating life of Avrom Goldfaden into a multi-dimensional history of the Yiddish theater’s formative years.” —Jeffery Veidinger, author of Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire In this book, Alyssa Quint focuses on the early years of the modern Yiddish theater, from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the works of one of its best-known and most colorful figures, Avrom Goldfaden. Goldfaden (né Goldenfaden, 1840-1908) was one of the first playwrights to stage a commercially viable Yiddish-language theater, first in Romania and then in Russia. Goldfaden’s work was rapidly disseminated in print and his plays were performed frequently for Jewish audiences. Sholem Aleichem considered him as a forger of a new language that “breathed the European spirit into our old jargon.” Quint uses Goldfaden’s theatrical works as a way to understand the social life of Jewish theater in Imperial Russia. Through a study of his libretti, she looks at the experiences of Russian Jewish actors, male and female, to explore connections between culture as artistic production and culture in the sense of broader social structures. Quint explores how Jewish actors who played Goldfaden’s work on stage absorbed the theater into their everyday lives. Goldfaden’s theater gives a rich view into the conduct, ideology, religion, and politics of Jews during an important moment in the history of late Imperial Russia.
From Continuity to Contiguity
Author: Dan MironPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804775028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
Dan Miron—widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures—begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped by the need to see these literatures as a continuum. Miron seeks to break through this impasse by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. These literatures instead form a complex of independent, yet touching, components related through contiguity. From Continuity to Contiguity offers original insights into modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish literatures, including a new interpretation of Franz Kafka's place within them and discussions of Sholem Aleichem, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Akhad ha'am, M. Y. Berditshevsky, Kh. N. Bialik, and Y. L. Peretz.
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Author: Kafka's Jewish Languages
Author: David SuchoffPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205243
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
After Franz Kafka died in 1924, his novels and short stories were published in ways that downplayed both their author's roots in Prague and his engagement with Jewish tradition and language, so as to secure their place in the German literary canon. Now, nearly a century after Kafka began to create his fictions, Germany, Israel, and the Czech Republic lay claim to his legacy. Kafka's Jewish Languages brings Kafka's stature as a specifically Jewish writer into focus. David Suchoff explores the Yiddish and modern Hebrew that inspired Kafka's vision of tradition. Citing the Jewish sources crucial to the development of Kafka's style, the book demonstrates the intimate relationship between the author's Jewish modes of expression and the larger literary significance of his works. Suchoff shows how "The Judgment" evokes Yiddish as a language of comic curse and examines how Yiddish, African American, and culturally Zionist voices appear in the unfinished novel, Amerika. In his reading of The Trial, Suchoff highlights the black humor Kafka learned from the Yiddish theater, and he interprets The Castle in light of Kafka's involvement with the renewal of the Hebrew language. Finally, he uncovers the Yiddish and Hebrew meanings behind Kafka's "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse-Folk" and considers the recent legal case in Tel Aviv over the possession of Kafka's missing manuscripts as a parable of the transnational meanings of his writing.
Shmuel Hugo Bergmann
Author: Olaf GlöcknerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311104601X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In recent years, the interest on life and work of the Jewish writer, philosopher, mystic and politician Shmuel Hugo Bergmann (1883–1975) has perceptibly increased. Well-known as a protagonist of the famous "Prague Circle", Bergmann headed for Palestine in 1920, became the driving force for building the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem and finally advanced as first Rector of the Hebrew University. All his life, close ties to the Czech Republic remained. In the State of Israel, Bergmann became a leading philosopher and highly admired cultural figure. He himself showed great interest in world religions, mysticism, and Western esotericism. Bergmann also emerged as an important point of reference for left-wing Israeli discourse. Up from the late 1920ies has was one of the protagonists of the “Brit Shalom”, an initiative which called for an advocated peaceful coexistence of Jews and Arabs and a bi-national State in Israel/Palestine. In this volume, distinguished historians, scholars of religion, and cultural scientists conflate a fascinating life story of a man who always worked on social and educational improvements and searched for fairness and deeper truths in a world full of conflict and antagonisms.
The Castle
Author: Franz KafkaPublisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Published posthumously in 1926, "Castle" is one of Kafka's major works alongside "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis." The novel follows the protagonist, K., who arrives in a village and seeks to gain access to the mysterious Castle situated on the hill overlooking the village. K. is appointed as a land surveyor, but he struggles to understand his role and the purpose of his mission. As K. attempts to interact with the villagers and officials connected to the Castle, he encounters various obstacles and bureaucratic hurdles. He becomes embroiled in the complex and opaque social structure of the village, where authority figures wield power arbitrarily, and communication is fraught with ambiguity. Throughout the narrative, Kafka delves into themes of alienation, the search for meaning, and the individual's futile struggle against inscrutable systems of power. The Castle itself serves as a metaphor for elusive authority, symbolizing an unreachable goal or an idealized state that remains perpetually out of reach. The novel is characterized by Kafka's distinctive writing style, marked by its surreal and dreamlike atmosphere, its exploration of psychological depths, and its use of labyrinthine bureaucratic structures as a means of social critique. "Castle" is often interpreted as a commentary on the human condition, reflecting Kafka's own sense of alienation and estrangement from the world around him. It continues to be studied and analyzed for its profound insights into the nature of power, identity, and the absurdity of existence.
The Mystical Life of Franz Kafka
Author: June O. LeavittPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199827834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
June O. Leavitt offers a fascinating examination of the mystical in Franz Kafka's life and writings, showing that Kafka's understanding of the occult was not only a product of his own clairvoyant experiences but of the age in which he lived.