Jewish Aspects in Avant-Garde: Between Rebellion and RevelationMark H. Gelber, Sami Sjöberg This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings linked to elements from Judaism or Jewish culture, thought, or history. |
Contents
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The Case of Romania | 35 |
The Idea of Jewish Essence in the GermanJewish AvantGarde | 53 |
Community Building and Cultural Conflicts | 71 |
The Warsaw Yiddish AvantGarde and Khalyastre | 85 |
Modern Jewish Sculptors and the Cultural Policy of the USSR in the 1920s1930s | 101 |
SelfRepresentation and AntiSemitism | 119 |
The Workings of AntiSemitic Rhetoric in Die glückliche Hand Op 18 1913 | 141 |
Saints and Tsadikim The Religious Syncretism of Jewish Expressionism | 161 |
Revelationism and Messianism in Epstein and Godard | 193 |
Der Nister as Unreliable Author in From my Estate 1929 | 207 |
The Role of Judaism in Benjamin Fondanes Existential Philosophy | 227 |
A Historical Perspective | 253 |
Notes on Contributors | 275 |
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