Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, xvi, 411 pp., b/w photos, index. Very Good. Item #109627
ISBN: 9780253019622
Introduction by the editors. Articles are "The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania," Liliane Weissberg, "Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S. J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg," Sylvia Jaworski, "The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews"," Andreas Kilcher, "Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne"," Jordan Finkin, "Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy," Gabriella Safran, "Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930)," Annette Werberger, "Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss," Galit Hasan-Rokem, "Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das Ostjüdische Antlitz (1920)," Eva Edelmann-Ohler, "Avant-Garde Authenticity: Ethnography and Identity in Moï Ver's Photobook Ein Ghetto im Osten," Samuel Spinner, "Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898-1904)," Alexander Alon, "Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora," Tamar Lewinsky, "From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography," Nathaniel Deutsch, "In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Note," Alla Sokolova, "Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore," Dani Schrire. Appendices: Note to Readers: "A. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers)," Naftoli Vaynig and Khayim Khayes, Translated by Jordan Finkin, "B. Research Your Shtetl," H. Aleksandrov, Translated by Jordan Finkin, "C. "A Strange Experience"," A. Almi, Translated by Gabriella Safran.
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