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Der Band bietet eine Einführung in Standardwerke der Literaturtheorie und stellt dabei die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Erfahrungsgeschichte und wissenschaftlichem Erkenntnisinteresse. Es ist teilweise aus dem Blick geraten, wie prägend die Arbeiten jüdischer Literaturwissenschaftlerinnen und –wissenschaftler für die theoretische Fundierung und institutionelle Verankerung der Geisteswissenschaften im 20. Jahrhundert gewesen ist. Der Band möchte an diese Entwicklung erinnern, dabei aber keine schlichte Gleichung von Herkunft, Zugehörigkeit und Denkstil unternehmen, sondern einer Textgelehrsamkeit nachgehen, die neue Zugänge zur Literatur und zur Literaturwissenschaft formte. Works that had a considerable impact on the development of the humanities in the twentieth century emerged against the backdrop of a culture of knowledge and an epistemological history shaped by Judaism. This volume aims to document this development without simply comparing origins, belonging, and styles of thought, instead tracing a textual scholarship that provided new access to literature and literary studies.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Jewish literature. --- culture of knowledge, twentieth century.

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The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas's wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas's deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas's draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Levinas. --- Nancy. --- literature. --- Literature--Philosophy --- Jewish literature --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 --- Filosofie --- 111.6

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The medieval Ashkenazi manuscripts of the Small Book of Commandments (Sefer Mitzvot Katan, or ‘SeMaK’ for short), which was written by Isaac of Corbeil, attest a scribal culture in which rabbinical knowledge and piety were combined with creative freedom in manuscript design.This study is concerned with the creation, composition and circulation of manuscripts of the SeMaK and concentrates on the book as an artefact. The focus of the author’s attention is the manuscripts’ material nature, their artistic embellishment and the personal touches that scribes added to them. With the act of writing a text and decorating a SeMaK manuscript, they ‘appropriated’ the text, so to speak, giving it a character of its very own. They drew on a visual language in the process – or rather, on visual languages, which occupy a special place between pure writing culture and pure painting culture. It was in this area ‘in between’ the two that spontaneous touches arose, ranging from changes in the physical arrangement of the text (mise-en-page) to drawings and doodles added in the margins.An examination of paratextual elements broadens the reader’s knowledge about Jewish scribal culture and grants insights into medieval book art, material culture and Judeo-Christian co-existence in the Middle Ages as well as throwing some light on Jewish values, ideals and eschatological hopes.

Ashkenazim. --- Judaism --- Aschkenas. --- Ashkenaz. --- Jewish Book Culture. --- Jews. --- Juden. --- Jüdische Buchkultur. --- Medieval History. --- Mediävistik. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Ashkenazic Jews --- Jews --- History --- Judaism. --- Religions --- Semites --- Religion

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"An estimated 40,000 Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War. How did Jewish poets and investigators in the 1920s make sense of such organized acts of violence (pogroms)? Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and documentary reports, Harriet Murav argues that poets and pogrom investigators were doing more than recording the facts of violence and expressing emotions in response to it. They were interrogating what was taking place through a central concept familiar from their everyday lifeworld-hefker, or abandonment. Hefker shaped the documentation of catastrophe by Jewish investigators at pogrom sites impossibly tasked with producing comprehensive reports of chaos. Hefker also became a framework for Yiddish writers to think through such incomprehensible violence by creating new forms of poetry. Focusing less on the perpetrators and more on the responses to the pogroms, As the Dust of the Earth offers a fuller understanding of the seismic effects of such organized violence and a moving testimony to the resilience of survivors to process and cope with catastrophe"--

Pogroms in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Atrocities in literature. --- Yiddish poetry --- Pogroms --- Jews --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish --- RELIGION / Judaism / History --- Themes, motives. --- History --- Sources. --- Crimes against --- Psychological aspects. --- Ukraine --- Literature and the revolution. --- Atrocities --- Personal narratives.

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How can we characterize the uniqueness of poetic language? How can we describe the evasive enchantment of the paradox that is created by both universal and autobiographical expression? How does ordinary language function aesthetically while motivating the reader to acknowledge himself and to reveal how far his thinking belongs to the present, the future, or the past? Ludwig Wittgenstein, the central founder of the linguistic turn and the inspiration of countless works, inspires the search of this book for various linguistic functions: Dialogic, aesthetic, and mystical. The search investigates four Modern Hebrew poets: Zelda, Yehuda Amichai, Admiel Kosman, and Shimon Adaf based on their family resemblance of intertextuality in their language-games. The book resists social-cultural categorizations as religious vs. secular poetry or Mizrahi vs. Ashkenazi literature, and instead, focuses on Wittgenstein's aspects, suggesting universal interpretation of these corpuses.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, --- Zelda --- Bent, Blanche R. --- Bent, George C. --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, Lu-te-wei-hsi, --- Wittgenstein, L. --- Vitgenshteĭn, L., --- Wei-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Pitʻŭgensyutʻain, --- Vitgenshteĭn, Li︠u︡dvig, --- Weitegenshitan, --- Wittgenstein, Ludovicus, --- Vitgenshtaĭn, Ludvig, --- ויטגנשטיין, לודוויג --- 维特根斯坦, --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann, --- Criticism and interpretation.