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1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations. |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The beginnings of Jewish primitivism : folklorism and Peretz -- The plausibility of Jewish primitivism : fictions and travels in An-sky, Döblin, and Roth -- The possibility of Jewish primitivism : Kafka's self and Kafka's other -- The politics of Jewish primitivism : Else Lasker-Schüler and Uri Zvi Grinberg -- The aesthetics of Jewish primitivism I : Der Nister's literary abstraction -- The aesthetics of Jewish primitivism II : Moyshe Vorobeichic's avant-garde photography. |
| Summary |
"Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "primitive" tribesmen. Primitivism--the European appreciation of and fascination with so-called "primitive," non-Western peoples who were also subjugated and denigrated--was a powerful artistic critique of the modern world and was adopted by Jewish writers and artists to explore the urgent questions surrounding their own identity and status in Europe as insiders and outsiders. Jewish primitivism found expression in a variety of forms in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German literature, photography, and graphic art, including in the work of figures such as Franz Kafka, Y.L. Peretz, S. An-sky, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Moï Ver. In Jewish Primitivism , Samuel J. Spinner argues that these and other Jewish modernists developed a distinct primitivist aesthetic that, by locating the savage present within Europe, challenged the idea of the threatening savage other from outside Europe on which much primitivism relied: in Jewish primitivism, the savage is already there. This book offers a new assessment of modern Jewish art and literature and shows how Jewish primitivism troubles the boundary between observer and observed, cultured and "primitive," colonizer and colonized"-- Provided by publisher. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Jewish arts -- Europe -- 20th century.
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Jewish arts. |
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Europe. |
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20th century |
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Jewish aesthetics -- Europe -- 20th century.
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Jewish aesthetics. |
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Jewish literature -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Jewish literature. |
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Jewish art -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Themes, motives. |
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Primitivism in literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Primitivism in literature. |
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History. |
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Primitivism in art -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Primitivism in art. |
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Jewish art. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish. |
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1900-1999 |
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Franz Kafka. |
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German-Jewish literature. |
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Jewish culture. |
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Jewish identity. |
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S. An-sky. |
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Y.L. Peretz. |
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Yiddish literature. |
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ethnography. |
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folklore. |
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photography. |
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primitivism. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spinner, Samuel J.. Jewish primitivism Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. 9781503628274 (DLC) 2021011013 |
| ISBN |
9781503628281 electronic book |
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1503628280 electronic book |
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9781503628274 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781503628281 |
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