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Jewish aspects in avant-garde : between rebellion and revelation

Title
Jewish aspects in avant-garde : between rebellion and revelation / edited by Mark H. Gelber and Sami Sjöberg.
Publication
Boston/Berlin : De Gruyter, [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Gelber, Mark H., 1951-
  • Sjöberg, Sami
Description
vi, 277 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This volume will deal with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings linked to elements from Judaism or Jewish culture, thought, or history.
Series Statement
Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts, 2199-6962 ; 5
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Acknowledgements / Sami Sjöberg and Mark H. Gelber -- Introduction the avant-garde and Jewish traditions / Alfred Bodenheimer -- Dada judaism: the avant-garde in First World War Zurich / Radu Stern -- Jews and the avant-garde : the case of Romania / Sami Sjöberg -- Towards an ahistorical Jewishness : the idea of Jewish essence in the German-Jewish avant-garde community building and cultural conflicts / Andreas Kramer -- Carl Einstein, Jewishness, and the communities of the European avant-garde / Laëtitia Tordjman -- Challenging the literary community : the Warsaw yiddish avant-garde and khalyastre / Maria Silina -- Modern Jewish sculptors and the cultural policy of the USSR in the 1920s-1930s : self-representation and anti-semitism / Zoë Roth -- Frontière humaine : race, nation, and the shape of representation in Claude Cahun / Alana Sobelman -- Arnold Schoenberg's Jewish veil : the workings of anti-semitic rhetoric in die Glückliche Hand, Op. 18 (1913) : messianism, syncretism, and vanguard philosophy / Malgorzata Stolarska-Fronia -- Saints and tsadikim : the religious syncretism of Jewish expressionism / Tom Paulus -- Between ecstasy and lament : revelationism and messianism in Epstein and Godard / Raphael Koenig -- The mad book: der Nister as unreliable author in from my estate (1929) / Olivier Salazar-Ferrer -- The role of Judaism in Benjamin Fondane's existential philosophy Jews in the avant-garde : a historical perspective / Steven E. Aschheim -- The avant-garde and the Jews -- Notes on contributors.
Call Number
JFE 17-9826
ISBN
  • 9783110336924
  • 3110336928
  • 3110454963
  • 9783110454963
LCCN
2017042353
OCLC
1000133483
Title
Jewish aspects in avant-garde : between rebellion and revelation / edited by Mark H. Gelber and Sami Sjöberg.
Publisher
Boston/Berlin : De Gruyter, [2017]
Edition
1 Edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts, 2199-6962 ; 5
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Gelber, Mark H., 1951- editor.
Sjöberg, Sami, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-9826
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