Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture

Małgorzata Pakier editor Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:18th Oct '12

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The volume aims to illuminate the issue of Jewish identity in the context of its pre-Holocaust European origins and post-Holocaust American and Israeli settings. Jewish experience and identity construction in Europe, America and Israel are presented through diverse perspectives: Merchant of Venice in the light of Levinas’ ethics, Italian Jews in the 20th century, German-speaking Jewish authors in the Nazi 1930s, the Hassidic culture of learning, the representation of contemporary Poland in Jewish photography, Jewish life in America in a kashrut observing Orthodox neighbourhood, Kaballah in feminist cyberpunk fiction by Marge Piercy, constructing Jewish identity in British fiction in novels by Will Self and Muriel Spark, and Israeli films focusing on ethical solutions to political problems.

ISBN: 9783631622292

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 350g

184 pages

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