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Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture

by Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich (Volume editor) Malgorzata Pakier (Volume editor)
©2013 Edited Collection 184 Pages

Summary

The volume aims to illuminate the issue of Jewish identity in the context of its pre-Holocaust European origins and post-Holocaust American and Israeli settings. Jewish experience and identity construction in Europe, America and Israel are presented through diverse perspectives: Merchant of Venice in the light of Levinas’ ethics, Italian Jews in the 20th century, German-speaking Jewish authors in the Nazi 1930s, the Hassidic culture of learning, the representation of contemporary Poland in Jewish photography, Jewish life in America in a kashrut observing Orthodox neighbourhood, Kaballah in feminist cyberpunk fiction by Marge Piercy, constructing Jewish identity in British fiction in novels by Will Self and Muriel Spark, and Israeli films focusing on ethical solutions to political problems.

Details

Pages
184
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653023893
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631622292
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02389-3
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (October)
Keywords
kashrut Israeli cinema Hasiddim Jewish photography anti-Semitism Italy United States Nazi Germany Poland
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 182 pp.

Biographical notes

Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich (Volume editor) Malgorzata Pakier (Volume editor)

Lucyna Aleksandrowicz- Pędich is Associate Professor at SWPS – Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, teaching American literature and cross-cultural communication. Her main research interest is in Jewish-American writers. Małgorzata Pakier is Assistant Professor at SWPS – Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and is active in planning the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Her research interests include Holocaust memory, Polish and German cinema, cultural memory and mass media.

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Title: Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture