Salvage poetics: post-Holocaust American Jewish folk ethnographies
An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Wayne State University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Jelen, Sheila E., ca. 20./21. Jh., Salvage poetics] (2022) (Caplan, Marc, 1967 -)
Reframing the Shtetl for Post-Holocaust American Jewish Audiences (2025) (Gollance, Sonia) |
| Series/Journal: | Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Anthropology
/ Everyday life
/ Europe
/ Reconstruction
B USA / Jews / Literature / Jews / Folklore studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethnology
B Electronic books |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America. Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: In Search of a Postwar Jewishness -- An Introduction to Salvage Poetics: Anecdotes, Artifacts, Antidotes, and Art -- 1. Salvage (Selvedge) Translation: Maurice Samuel's The World of Sholem Aleichem and Prince of the Ghetto -- 2. Salvage Inwardness: The Hasidic Tale in Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Earth Is the Lord's -- 3. Salvage Literary Inference: The Inner World of the Shtetl in Life Is with People -- 4. Salvage Montage: The Missing Piece in A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, The Golden Tradition, and Image before My Eyes -- 5. Auto-Ethnographic Salvage: Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World -- 6. Patronymic Salvage: Daughters in Search of Their Fathers -- Postscript: Intertextuality in Post-Holocaust American Jewish Salvage Texts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (402 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780814343197 |
