Salvage poetics: post-Holocaust American Jewish folk ethnographies

An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.

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Main Author: Jelen, Sheila E. ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: OnixTransformation.OnixModel.CityOfPublication Wayne State University Press 2020
In:Year: 2020
Reviews:[Rezension von: Jelen, Sheila E., ca. 20./21. Jh., Salvage poetics] (2022) (Caplan, Marc)
Series/Journal:Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judaism / Anthropology / Everyday life / Europe / Reconstruction
B USA / Jews / Literature / Jews / Folklore studies
Further subjects:B Ethnology
B Electronic books
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: In Search of a Postwar Jewishness -- An Introduction to Salvage Poetics: Anecdotes, Artifacts, Antidotes, and Art -- 1. Salvage (Selvedge) Translation: Maurice Samuel's The World of Sholem Aleichem and Prince of the Ghetto -- 2. Salvage Inwardness: The Hasidic Tale in Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Earth Is the Lord's -- 3. Salvage Literary Inference: The Inner World of the Shtetl in Life Is with People -- 4. Salvage Montage: The Missing Piece in A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, The Golden Tradition, and Image before My Eyes -- 5. Auto-Ethnographic Salvage: Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World -- 6. Patronymic Salvage: Daughters in Search of Their Fathers -- Postscript: Intertextuality in Post-Holocaust American Jewish Salvage Texts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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ISBN:0814343198