Jewish primitivism /

"Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "primitive" tribesmen. Primitivism--the European appreciation of and fascination with so-called "primitive," non-Western peoples who were also s...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spinner, Samuel J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Jewish arts > Europe > 20th century.
Jewish aesthetics > Europe > 20th century.
Jewish literature > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Jewish art > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Primitivism in literature > History > 20th century.
Primitivism in art > Europe > History > 20th century.
Arts juifs > Europe > 20e siècle.
Esthétique juive > Europe > 20e siècle.
Littérature juive > 20e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Art juif > 20e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Primitivisme dans la littérature > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Jewish aesthetics
Jewish arts
Primitivism in art
Primitivism in literature
Europe
Franz Kafka.
German-Jewish literature.
Jewish culture.
Jewish identity.
S. An-sky.
Y.L. Peretz.
Yiddish literature.
ethnography.
folklore.
photography.
primitivism.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The beginnings of Jewish primitivism : folklorism and Peretz
  • The plausibility of Jewish primitivism : fictions and travels in An-sky, Döblin, and Roth
  • The possibility of Jewish primitivism : Kafka's self and Kafka's other
  • The politics of Jewish primitivism : Else Lasker-Schüler and Uri Zvi Grinberg
  • The aesthetics of Jewish primitivism I : Der Nister's literary abstraction
  • The aesthetics of Jewish primitivism II : Moyshe Vorobeichic's avant-garde photography.

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