Spiritual homelands: the cultural experience of exile, place and displacement among Jews and others

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Biemann, Asher D. / Cohen, Richard I. / Wobick-Segev, Sarah E. -- Part 1: Exile and Erasures -- The End of Exile? The Metz Contest of 1787 Revisited / Birnbaum, Pierre -- Remembering/Imagining Palestine from Afar: The (Lost) Homeland in Contemporary Palestin...

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Published in:Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts
Contributors: Biemann, Asher D. 1969- (Editor) ; Kohen, Yeraḥmiʾel 1946- (Editor) ; Wobick-Segev, Sarah (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Berlin Boston De Gruyter [2019]
In: Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts (12)
Series/Journal:Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts 12
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Exile (Motif) / Expulsion (Motif) / Home (Motif) / Space (Motif) / Jewish literature / History
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Jews Social conditions
B Jews Civilization
B Jews Identity
B LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
B Jewish Diaspora
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Summary:Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Biemann, Asher D. / Cohen, Richard I. / Wobick-Segev, Sarah E. -- Part 1: Exile and Erasures -- The End of Exile? The Metz Contest of 1787 Revisited / Birnbaum, Pierre -- Remembering/Imagining Palestine from Afar: The (Lost) Homeland in Contemporary Palestinian Diaspora Literature / Fischer, Nina -- Part 2: Writing the Homeland -- Worlds, Words, and Womanhood: Gina Kaus and the Formation of a Spiritual Homeland / Range, Regina -- Performing Homeland in Post-Vernacular Times: Dzigan and Shumacher’s Yiddish Theater after the Holocaust / Rotman, Diego -- Part 3: Language in Exile -- The World as Exile and the Word as Homeland in the Writing of Boris Khazanov / Hoffman, Stefani -- Uncovering Accent and Belonging in Juan Gelman’s Dibaxu / Lang Hilgartner, Judith K. -- Part 4: Multiple Exiles, Contingent Homelands -- France as Wahlheimat for Two German Jews: Heinrich Heine and Walter Benjamin / Grossman, Jeffrey A. -- The Girl from the Golden Horn: Kurban Said / Lev Nussinbaum’s Vision of Home and Exile in Interbellum Berlin / Almas, H. Esra -- “In der Fremde zu hause”: Contingent Cosmopolitanism and Elective Exile in the Writing of Hans Keilson / Parkinson, Anna M. -- Part 5: Of Other Spaces: Travel and Trauma -- Israel as a Place of Trauma and Desire in Contemporary German Jewish Literature / Mueller, Agnes C. -- Paper Existences: Passports and Literary Imagination / Bischoff, Doerte -- Neither Heimat nor Exile: The Perception of Paris as a Historical Blind Spot in Three Israeli Novels / Müller, Judith -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of boundary crossings and of desired places and alternate identities, into a world of adopted kin and invented allegiances
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ISBN:3110637561
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9783110637564