Wohnwort: The linguistic homelands of Elazar Benyoetz
One aspect of Elazar Benyoëtz’s poetry is his bold attempt to treat the catastrophe of Auschwitz through a linguistic prism. In this essay, I would like to shed light on his way of inhabiting the German language as an outsider by considering the ethical implications of his bifurcated linguistic soul...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Universität Bern, Institut für Judaistik
2022
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Judaica: neue digitale Folge
Year: 2022, Volume: 3, Pages: 1-20 |
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| Summary: | One aspect of Elazar Benyoëtz’s poetry is his bold attempt to treat the catastrophe of Auschwitz through a linguistic prism. In this essay, I would like to shed light on his way of inhabiting the German language as an outsider by considering the ethical implications of his bifurcated linguistic soul. To do so, I will first analyze the general representation of language that appears in Benyoëtz’s work. In particular, I will point to the dynamics of language and how its movement shapes a land and a language beyond all constraints of ownership, while providing an alternative way of inhabiting it. I will then examine possible interpretations of Benyoëtz’s bifurcated linguistic soul along with its ethical implications, including not only a coming to terms with the end of German-Jewish symbiosis, but also a utopian way of repairing it. |
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| ISSN: | 2673-4273 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Judaica: neue digitale Folge
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.36950/jndf.2022.15 |