How the Wise Men Got to Chelm : The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition /

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"How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. By placing literary Chelm and its 'foolish' antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bernuth, Ruth von (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Deutsch, ...
Lalebuch
Jewish wit and humor in literature.
Jewish folk literature > History and criticism.
Folk literature, Yiddish > Poland > Chełm (Lublin) > History and criticism.
Folk literature, Yiddish > History and criticism.
Volkserzählung
Schlemihl
Juden
Jiddisch
Folk literature, Yiddish.
Jewish folk literature.
Osteuropa
Cholm
Poland > Chełm (Lublin)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. How the Wise Men got to Gotham: the fools of Chelm take Manhattan
  • 2. How foolish Is Jewish culture? fools, Jews, and the Carnivalesque Culture of early modernity
  • 3. Through the land of foolish culture: from Laleburg to Schildburg
  • 4. Gentile fools speaking Yiddish: the Schildbürgerbuch for Jewish readers
  • 5. The enlightenment goes East: how Democritus of Abdera got to Galicia
  • 6. The geography of folly: the folklorists and the invention of Chelm
  • 7. Chelm tales after World War One in German and Yiddish: "Our Schilda" and "Our Chelm Correspondent."

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