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Furtado, Helio Dias. "Jewish values in Philip Roth's fiction." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1991. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/157717.
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Desde o começo de sua carreira como escritor, Philip Roth tem sido acusado por líderes judeus americanos, e até mesmo por alguns críticos literários de anti-semitismo e ódio pela sua condição de judeu. Essas acusações foram motivadas pela maneira como ele retrata a vida judaica americana em seus trabalhos de ficção, a qual, na visão de seus acusadores denigre o povo judeu, suas tradições em instituições. Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a verdadeira intenção da abordagem que ele dá ao judaismo em sua ficção. A conclusão é que embora uma leitura superficial dos livros de Roth possa levar o leitor a concordar com as acusações dos líderes judeus e dos rabinos.O objetivo dele ao abordar o judaismo está longe disto no que se refere à sua vida religiosa, os protagonistas de Roth realmente mantém um certo distanciamento do judaismo porque eles estão empenhados na busca de uma religiosidade que transcende os limites de qualque religião enquanto organização.
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Schorr, Heide [Verfasser]. "Millennial Memory Perspectives in Jewish American Fiction / Heide Schorr." Hildesheim : Universität Hildesheim, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1149806389/34.
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Spergel, Julie. "Canada's "second history": the fiction of Jewish Canadian women writers." Hamburg Kovač, 2009. http://d-nb.info/997540079/04.
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Kensky, Eitan Lev. "Facing the Limits of Fiction: Self-Consciousness in Jewish American Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10716.
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This thesis explores the limits of fictional language by studying the work of Jewish American writer-critics, novelists who significantly engaged with literary criticism, and critics who experimented with the novel or short fiction. These writer-critics all believed in Literature: they believed that literature could effect social change and educate the masses; or they believed in literature as an art-form, one that exposed the myths underlying American society, or that revealed something fundamental about the human condition. Yet it is because they believed so stridently in the concept of Literature that they turned to non-fiction. Writing fiction exposed problems that Literature could not resolve. They describe being haunted by “preoccupations” that they could not exhaust in fiction alone. They apologetically refer to their critical texts as “by-products” of their creative writing. Writer-critics were forced to decide what the limits of fiction were, and they adopted other types of writing to supplement these unexpected gaps in fiction's power. This dissertation contains four chapters and an introduction. The introduction establishes the methodological difficulties in writing about author-critics, and introduces a set of principles to guide the study. Chapter 1 approaches Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky (1917). I argue that many of the novel's difficulties result from Cahan's desire to present the way that ideology shades our understanding of reality while minimizing direct narratorial intrusions. Chapter 2 studies how politics affected the work of Mike Gold, Moishe Nadir, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. In all three writers, literature emerges as a kind of ersatz-politics, a space for the dispossessed to imagine the political. In the end, the political novel only reinforces the fictionality. Chapter 3 is a study of Leslie Fiedler's problematic novel, The Second Stone. While critics have seen the novel as a kind of game, I propose reading the novel as an earnest expression of Fiedler's vision of literature as a conversation. Chapter 4 turns to Cynthia Ozick and Susan Sontag. A cumulative reading of their fiction and criticism shows the deep twinning of their fiction and critical thought. For both writers true knowledge comes only through the imagination.Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Clifford, Dafna. "Unifying elements in European Jewish fiction, 1890-1945 : between disillusion and destruction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9701edaa-38b6-4816-942b-6071418ba395.
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This study seeks to identify and describe the characteristic elements of European Jewish fiction during the period 1890-1945. Writings that deal with overtly religious themes or which have Zionist publicistic tendencies have been excluded and emphasis is placed on works with settings that are sim- ilar to those to be found in contemporary European fiction by non-Jewish writers. In order to provide a broad comparison, the study incorporates representative literary material by Jews from both Western and Eastern intellectual traditions, and includes texts in the three major languages of artistic expression in these communities: German, Yiddish, and Hebrew. On the basis of this material, it is argued that, in three respects at least, there is an identifiable unity in secular Jewish writing. Firstly, there is a thematic preoccupation with thwarted idealism, which is elaborated in a complex interaction among such themes as social alienation, ambivalence in interpersonal relationships, political altruism and impotence. Secondly, there is a consistent treatment of the characterisation of women, the devel- opment of their relationships to men, and the role of the family. Finally, there is a special reliance on the literary device of irony, in both its verbal and situational forms. The introductory chapter provides historical background and gives a general outline of the thesis. Subsequent chapters are organised as a sequence of thematic and stylistic comparisons; firstly between represen- tative texts from Eastern and Western Jewish communities and finally between the writings of a Jewish and a non-Jewish author, in an analysis of the use of irony in the works of Siegfried Kracauer and Thomas Mann. The German texts studied are Der Weg ins Freie by Arthur Schnitzler, Junge Frau von 1914 by Arnold Zweig, Kafka's Das Schlofl, Georg and Ginster by Siegfried Kracauer and Die Flucht ohne Ende by Joseph Roth. The Yid- dish writings are Di mishpokhe Karnovski and Khaver Nakhmen by I.J. Singer, Tsvishn emigrantn, Nokh Alemen and Mides-hadin by Dovid Bergelson and Di gas by Yisroel Rabon and the Hebrew texts are Nokhah hayam and Hayey nisu'im by David Vogel.
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Cheyette, Bryan. "An overwhelming question : Jewish stereotyping in English fiction and society, 1875-1914." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1986. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2948/.
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This thesis sets out to examine the nature of modern Jewish stereotyping in English society with reference to a wide range of English fiction which, for the most part, has been previously undocumented in these terms. Instead of a purely literary analysis of the fictional Jewish stereotype, this thesis places the Jewish stereotype in a specific ideological and historical context which is then related to a given writer-or group of writers—and their fiction. Two chapters, moreover, demonstrate the material results of Jewish stereotyping in English society with reference to the internalisation and institutionalisation of Jewish stereotyping by British Jewry and the AngloJewish novel. The variety and impact of Jewish stereotyping is shown to encompass the ideologies of liberalism, social Darwinism, Imperialism, antisemitism, proto-Zionism, Socialism and mainstream versions of sexuality. The concluding chapter relates the modern Jewish stereotype, which was formed after the 1870s, to a more general ahistorical mythic view of the Jew. In particular, this chapter refers to the links between modern Jewish stereotyping and the traditional Christian view of the Jew. With reference to a wide range of writers, more general questions are raised in this chapter concerning the continuity of Jewish stereotyping and the choice of a given stereotype by a particular social or literary group.
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Cheyette, Bryan H. "An overwhelming question Jewish stereotyping in English fiction and society, 1875-1914 /." Online version, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.292696.
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Tytell, Frances Wilke. "The golem speaks : a study of four modern Jewish American novels /." Electronic thesis, 2005. http://etd.wfu.edu/theses/available/etd-06262005-195633/.
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Sol, Adam Howard. "BALANCING ACTS: THE RE-INVENTION OF ETHNICITY IN JEWISH AMERICAN FICTION BEFORE 1930." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin973712137.
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Tillman, Aaron. "Magical American Jew : the enigma of difference in contemporary Jewish American short fiction and film /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2009. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3368007.
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Traves, Julie. "Writing himself and others : Philip Roth and the autobiographical tradition in Jewish-American fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26763.
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Philip Roth's parody of autobiography in the Zuckerman series is part of a larger debate concerning the problems of Jewish art. As Roth manipulates personal and personified autobiography, he both underlines and undermines Jewish traditions of reading and writing. To be sure, Zuckerman's struggle for artistic identity articulates a long-standing Jewish concern with the tensions of collective representation. It is from a culture consistently threatened by alienation and extermination that Roth finds his terms of reference. Zuckerman and his creator are subject to a whole discourse of Jewish textuality: to Jewish notions about the relationship between the individual and the group; between fact and fiction and between aesthetics and morality.However, the Zuckerman books are at once part of a continuum of Jewish culture and a unique response to the pressures of contemporary American Judaism. Through his humorous manipulations of autobiographical fiction, Roth finally counter-turns the very compasses by which he has oriented himself. He offers a potent commentary on the fatuity of Jewish "facts" and on the fictitious nature of the collectivized Jewish voice. For Roth, it is not only the Jew's experience, but his/her imagination, his/her individual frame of understanding, that determines ethnic identity. In the end, Roth challenges the cohesion of the Jewish cultural text. He places himself in a house of mirrors, where life and art, self and group, Jewish reverence and Jewish rebellion, endlessly reflect off one another.
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Traves, Julie Rose. "Writing himself and others, Philip Roth and the autobiographical tradition in Jewish-American fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29574.pdf.
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Jozwikowska, Wanda. "Polish-Jewish fiction before the Second World War : a testing ground for polysystem theory." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2016. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/62308/.
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In this thesis, I intend to show that it is possible to offer a partial explanation for the fact that pre-war Polish-Jewish fiction has been recognised only to a very limited extent in Britain. In doing this, I embrace the limitations and unaddressed areas of polysystem theory, an approach that leads to several contributions to this theory so that it is more suited to look at marginal translations. In this study, the source context and the largely hypothetical target context (given the predominant lack of English translations) of pre-war Polish-Jewish fiction are conceptualised as systems informed by a variety of factors. I begin by introducing polysystem theory in Chapter 1, where I also explain the rationale for its use in this study. I also briefly define pre-war Polish-Jewish fiction and elaborate on the nature of its visibility in Britain. I then go on to consider, in Chapter 2, the origins and the characteristics of the literature in question in search of factors that inform the current status of this literature in Britain. In Chapter 3, I focus on specific aspects of British culture and history to identify factors embedded in the target context that inform the current limited recognition of pre-war Polish-Jewish fiction in Britain. In Chapters 4 and 5, I turn to the texts of the few English translations of Polish-Jewish works of fiction; and consider the dynamics of their publishing processes respectively. Finally, the conclusions I draw in final Chapter 6 are that polysystem theory can be applied to account for the limited attention paid to pre-war Polish-Jewish fiction as a whole in Britain; and, possibly, to account for other largely unacknowledged literary works in other contexts. Moreover, drawing on the results of this study, I suggest ways in which the current status of the literature I am concerned with can be changed in future. My main contribution is that of the new concept of a systemic gap, which in this study represents largely untranslated writing in British literature, and which has enabled me to address the question of the limited reception of Polish-Jewish fiction in Britain. In the light of these findings, I argue that it is useful to look at untranslated texts and largely unrecognised translations because such research can offer new insights into the practice and the theory of translation.
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Ramsay, Rachel. "Turkish and Jewish encounters in contemporary German-Language fiction : Stereotypes, parallels, proximities, intersections of otherness." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517859.
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Kaiserman, Aaron Samuel. "Jews and the English Nation: An Intertextual Approach to Evolving Representations of Jews in British Fiction, 1701-1876." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34137.
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Recent scholarship on the representations of Jews in British Romantic fiction has explored the relationship between the radical changes in Jewish characterization of the period and shifting cultural values. Judith Page, for example, considers the effect of Romantic notions of sentiment, detailing especially how Jews test the limits of sympathetic feeling, and Michael Ragussis has linked the surge of interest in Jews to their value as rhetorically useful subjects in relation to debates surrounding English and British identity. Such studies at times draw attention to the impact of older characterizations of Jews on the new, typically to reinforce claims that relate changing Jewish portrayals to particular cultural and historical developments. Yet, the impact of literary precedent itself has not been fully considered as a leading factor in inspiring new ideas about Jewish characterization. This study takes as its centrepiece the development of the sympathetic or benevolent Jew in the Romantic period, best characterized by Richard Cumberland’s sentimental comedy The Jew (1794), and the historical novels Harrington (1814), and Ivanhoe (1819) by Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott respectively. These works draw heavily on pre-existing Jewish-themed texts, notably Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1598). While the play’s Jewish villain Shylock exerts a powerful and well-documented influence on later Jewish characters, the relevance of these Shylockian imitators merits more minute investigation in terms of their impact on the gradual transformation of ideas about Jews in fiction. For this reason, this dissertation takes a long period of history as its subject in order to emphasize that innovation in Jewish portrayal results not from ongoing social change alone, but equally from the interplay of past literary influences and developments in style and genre.
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Anderson, Daniel Paul Jr. "The Ivory Shtetl: The University and the Postwar Jewish Imagination." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333727480.
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Johnston, Kelly Scott. "R. Joseph della Reina and his damnation in the fiction of I. B. Singer." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31115.
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The following thesis focuses on the medieval kabbalistic legend of R. Joseph della Reina who, using traditions of esoteric magic, conjured Satan in order to slaughter him in an unsuccessful bid to force the Redemption of Israel. A translation of a version from eighteenth century Amsterdam is presented. Influenced by the heretical ideas of Sabbatianism, this version carries two opposing significations: that of a cautionary tale on one hand, that of a tragic tale of mystical heroism on the other. Based on evidence from the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the case is made that the modern author, in line with his philosophy of political passivism and historical pessimism, makes full use of the Faustian fascination of R. Joseph della Reina's fearsome story while repeatedly presenting the legend in such a way as to purge it of traditional ambiguity, undermine its tragic character, and leave behind only the aspect of caution or warning.
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Morse, Daniel Lee. "Not quite white : Jewish literary identity, new immigration and otherness in America, 1890-1930." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9564.
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America’s ‘long early twentieth century’ (1890-1945) was a period of intense industrialization, urbanization, and immigration which fundamentally altered the character of the nation. Between 1900 and 1924, which saw the curtailing of immigration from southern and eastern Europe via the passage of the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (successor to 1921’s stop-gap Emergency Quota Act), more than 14 million people flocked to the U.S. in search of economic opportunity, social equality, and freedom from religious and political oppression. Descendants of these ‘new immigrants,’ as they were called, were by the late twentieth century a staple of white American suburbia, but their progenitors were variously considered ‘off-white,’ ‘dark-white,’ or non-white, with attendant connotations of mental, physical, and moral inferiority. This research examines texts, authored by Jewish immigrants such as Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Rose Cohen, and Mary Antin, which were published between 1890 and 1930, when the onset of the Great Depression saw a rise in anti-Semitism that contributed to the decline in popularity of ‘up by the bootstraps’ Americana whose narratives chronicled, ostensibly, social assimilation and cultural integration; it considers the ramifications of writing in English for a native audience, which frequently alienated Jewish immigrants from their peers, and analyzes the manner in which the United States’ shifting social mores coincided with—and facilitated—new immigrants’ reappraisal of religion, education, commerce, and family life in the ‘new world’ of the west. It argues that the ambivalence contained within many of these texts was both a reaction to nativist prejudices and an effort to expose misconceptions present on both sides of the wildly popular Americanization movement, as well as exploring the way that such narratives attempted the redefinition of American philanthropic, educational and civic paradigms—the preponderance of which passionately espoused rhetoric of equality while reinforcing the stratification of the United States’ class system—into modes of interaction that accommodated difference while seeking to establish common ground upon which could be built a more inclusive, multiethnic future. Finally, it addresses the continuing relevance of these works as texts which both predict and presage modern modes of social interaction and discusses their future in an evolving literary canon that has, historically speaking, been an agent of western patriarchal hegemony.
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Dennett-Thorpe, Ivy Garlitz. "The old country : an experiment in modes of writing on the Jewish-American experience in poetry, fiction and popular culture." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297480.
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Yu, Jianhua. "Immigrant life and its cultural implications in the fiction of Jewish immigrant writers of New York's Lower East Side : 1890-1930." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293733.
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Stifflemire, Brett S. "Physicians, Society, and the Science Fiction Genre in the Film Versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers: or Doctors with a Serious Pod Complex." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2268.
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Close textual analysis of the four extant film versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers reveals that each film modifies the original story such that it reflects changing societal attitudes toward physicians and the medical profession, as well as depictions of military and government in the science fiction genre. The changing depictions of characters and events in these films respond to changes in medical history, social history, and the science fiction genre across five decades. Each film reflects the contemporary anxieties of its time and the perceived ability of physicians to relieve those anxieties. Doctors are important semantic elements of the science fiction genre, and their position within the syntax of a film helps to determine its meaning. By focusing on the physician character, this study finds that in addition to being a metaphor for threats such as Communism, Invasion of the Body Snatchers also reflects concerns about disease and other medical threats.
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Jones, Susanne Lenné. "What’s in a Frame?: Photography, Memory, and History in Contemporary German Literature." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1132239561.
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Sakinofsky, Phyllis Celia. "Imprints of memories, shadows and silences shaping the Jewish South African story /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/47942.
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Thesis contains the novel "Waterval" by Phyllis Sakinofsky.Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Media, Music, and Cultural Studies, 2009.
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PART ONE -- Introduction -- Section One -- Early history -- The apartheid years - two realities -- Post-apartheid South Africa -- The creative response of Jews to apartheid -- Section Two -- Our relationship with the past: placing narrative in the context of history -- Rememory and representation -- Telling the truth through stories -- Section Three -- Imprints of memories, shadows and silences: shaping the Jewish South African story -- PART TWO -- Waterval: a work of fiction by Phyllis Sakinofsky
This is a non-traditional thesis which comprises a work of fiction and a dissertation. -- The novel is set in South Africa and provides an account of events that took place among three families, Jewish, Coloured and Afrikaans, over three generations. -- The dissertation is constructed in three sections. The first section describes the settlement of South Africa's Jewish community, its divergent responses to apartheid and how this is mirrored in its literary output. -- In the second section, the relationship between history and fiction since the advent of postmodernism is discussed, how there has been a demand for historical truthfulness through multiple points of view and how consequently there has been an upsurge in memories and memorials for those previously denigrated as the defeated or victims. -- Fiction has been re-valued because it is through the novel that these once-submerged stories are being told. The novel has the capacity to explore uncomfortable or silenced episodes in our history, tell important truths and record stories and losses in a meaningful and relevant way. A novel might be shaped by history but it is through the writer's insights and interpretations that messages or meanings can reach many. -- South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission report is an example of how the written word can expose the relationship between the re-telling of history and finding an alternate truth. By recording the many conflicting stories of its peoples, it has linked truth and literature, ensuring an indelible imprint on the country's future writing. The past cannot be changed, but how the nation deals with it in the future will be determined by language and narrative. -- The final section is self-reflexive and illustrates the symbiotic bond between the research and creative components, citing examples from the dissertation of how the two streams influenced one another.
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Benamron-Rosner, Juliette. "« Manette et Moïse » : poétique du Juif de fiction dans la littérature, au tournant du siècle 1867-1929." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STRAC036.
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À l'aube du XIXe siècle, l'accélération de l'histoire, et la sécularisation qui s'installe, favorisent l'intégration sociale du Juif. Après 1789, il s'émancipe et devient un citoyen. Cette assimilation accompagne une intégration littéraire : le Juif devient un personnage de fiction, multipliant ses apparitions dans les œuvres françaises du XIXe siècle. Nous analyserons la manière dont les écrivains mettent à distance les stéréotypes dans l'élaboration d'un personnage judaïque, pour imaginer une profondeur littéraire et psychologique trouble et signifiante. Nous verrons en quoi ces représentations sont aussi marquées par un contexte historique particulier, comme l' Affaire Dreyfus, par exemple. Quelle influence le personnage juif a-t-il sur l'action ? A-t-il un destin ? Connaît-il l'amour ? A-t-il une identité permanente, ou est-il sensible au changement ? Le personnage juif crée une identité narrative particulière et problématique, tributaire de sa confession. Nous analyserons l'être, le faire et le dire du personnage juif, et montrerons comment la construction littéraire du personnage juif se nourrit aussi du dialogue entre texte et imageAt the dawn of the XIXth century, the acceleration of the history and the secularization which settles down, favor the social integration of the Jew. After 1789, he is emancipated and becomes a citizen. This assimilation accompanies a literary integration : the Jew becomes a fictional character, multiplying his appearances in the french works of the XIXth century. We shall analyze the way the writers put at a distance stereotypes in the elaboration of a Jewish character, to imagine a shady and significant literary and psychological depth. We shall see in what these representations are also marked by a particular historic context, as the Dreyfus affair, for example. What influences the Jewish character has on the action ? Has he a fate ? Does he know love? Has he a permanent identity, or is he sensitive to the change ? The Jewish character creates a particular and problematic narrative identity, dependent on his confession. We shall analyze the being, the making and the telling of the Jewish character, and shall show how the literary construction of the Jewish character also feeds on the dialogue between text and image
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Whittle, Maria Karen. "Subverting Socialist Realism: Vasily Grossman's Marginal Heroes." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/70.
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Soviet writer Vasilii Grossman has been renowned in the West as a dissident author of Life and Fate, which multiple sources, including The New York Times have called "arguably the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century." Grossman, however, was not a dissident, but an official state writer attempting to publish for a Soviet audience. Grossman's work was criticized by Soviets as being "too Jewish", while Jewish scholars have called it "not Jewish enough." And, despite his modern critical acclaim, little scholarship on Grossman exists. In my thesis, I explore these paradoxes. I argue that Grossman attempts to reinterpret traditional state ideas of Sovietness into a more inclusive, democratic version by creating heroes from traditionally marginalized groups. To do this, he reinterprets and inverts traditional tropes of the Socialist Realist genre. Genric limitations on his worldview, however, prevent this vision from being completely realized in the course of his work. I trace Grossman's work from his early short fiction to his Khruschev era novels and show how this trope develops during his career as a Soviet writer and citizen.
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Furci, Guido. "L'héritage nu. Mises en fiction du "témoin historique". Primo Levi - Aharon Appelfeld - Philip Roth." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA077.
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Pendant de nombreuses années, Aharon Appelfeld, Philip Roth et Primo Levi entretiennent une sorte de « dialogue à distance », interrompu en 1987 par la mort de ce dernier. Notre travail vise à analyser les modalités à travers lesquelles la production de ces trois écrivains – marqués de manière plus ou moins « directe » par l’histoire de la deuxième guerre mondiale et la mémoire de la Shoah – complexifie, avant tout sur le plan fictionnel, une certaine conception du témoignage, dont les enjeux esthétiques sont loin d’être anodins. Certes, dans un premier temps il a été important de reconstituer la correspondance triangulaire entre Levi, Appelfeld et Roth ; bien que fondamentale, ce n’est pas la composante philologique de notre recherche que nous avons souhaité mettre en avant, mais plutôt la pertinence d’un rapprochement de corpus en apparence distants, et pourtant liés par des questionnements analogues. Il est évident que si la possibilité de consulter, donc de disposer de documents d’archive pour la plupart inédits et d’accéder à des échanges parfois publics – quoique destinés à un auditoire en quelque sorte « communautaire » – a été précieuse afin d’alimenter la réflexion, le fait de lier de manière trop manifeste les considérations au sujet des démarches (poétiques ou politiques) de nos trois auteurs à leur complicité intellectuelle et, le cas échéant, à leur amitié aurait pu minimiser la portée de certaines observations – et suggérer de faux rapports de cause à effetMy doctoral thesis explores the relationship between literature and historical witnessing. By focusing on the works of Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, and Philip Roth (authors who relate in very different ways the trauma of the Holocaust), my research aims at investigating the enmeshment of aesthetic and epistemological issues. My comparative exploration of these authors is motivated by and allows for a conceptual layering of the problem along three distinct research axes : (1) each author maintains a different degree of autobiographical involvement with the genocidal facts he evokes, ranging from maximum directness (Levi) to an oblique post hoc distance (Roth) ; (2) each author thematizes the problem by framing fictional situations in which characters have to cope with the plastic tension of narrative recollection ; (3) there is a twofold factual link between the three authors consisting in (a) explicit or covert intertextual quotations (e.g. Levi and Appelfeld become characters in Roth’s "Operation Shylock") and, more significantly, (b) an under-investigated circular correspondence in which each of them discusses at length the gains and losses of (literary) historical witnessing. The core of my project, therefore, is grounded in the long-distance conversation on the reworking of memories between Aharon Appelfeld, Philip Roth and Primo Levi – a three-way conversation that perforce ceased with Levi’s death in 1987
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Melchers, Alma Louise Sophia. "Cinema plays history : National Socialism and the Holocaust in counterfactual historical films of the twenty-first century." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14340.
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Inspired by 2009 pastiche Inglourious Basterds (US/DE), my research presents counterfactual historical film, firstly, as a marginalised type of film: the 2000s and 2010s have seen an abundance of overtly fictional films which do not intend to represent the past but nonetheless playfully refer to imageries of National Socialist and Holocaust history. These films have so far been neglected by historical film studies which, despite a consensus not to judge films according to their factual accuracy, tend to focus on genres close to historiography. My research considers as historical films the counterfactual parodies Churchill: The Hollywood Years (GB 2004) and Mein Führer: Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (DE 2007), as well as Inglourious Basterds and, in a brief conclusion, Nazi zombie films. In this sense, counterfactual historical film is, secondly, a research approach which suggests reconfiguring academic definitions of the field of history and film and historical film. Assuming that historical film never visualises past reality but engages with a history that is always already medialised, I propose that the above films despite their counterfactual plots embark on a visual historical discourse, and what is more reflect upon cinema and history in their own enlightening ways. My analyses show how twenty-first century counterfactual historical films revise Nazi and Holocaust visual history, and how they describe National Socialist history as visually constructed and historical Nazism as an eclectic amalgamation drawing on fictional as well as factual media sources. In regard to the present, they explore tensions between popular and academic culture through the dissolving binaries of fiction film and historiographical fact, and propose to recognise the reciprocity of media representation and actual past as an object of research in its own right. My research demonstrates the value of cinema's playful engagement with history as a potential contribution to the theory and practise of historical film studies.
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Kuhn, Roze-Fleur. "Les métamorphoses romanesques de la mémoire juive : entre imitation et subversion : Dans les forêts de Pologne de Joseph Opatoshu, Satan à Goray d’Isaac Bashevis Singer, Le Dernier des Justes d’André Schwarz-Bart, Voir ci-dessous : Amour de David Grossman." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030035.
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À partir de la comparaison de quatre romans écrits à différentes périodes du XXesiècle, dans des langues et des lieux différents, mais tous marqués par un commun héritagejuif polonais – Dans les forêts de Pologne de Joseph Opatoshu, Satan à Goray d’IsaacBashevis Singer, Le Dernier des Justes d’André Schwarz-Bart et Voir ci-dessous : Amour deDavid Grossman – l’objet de cette étude est d’observer les transformations et lesdéplacements de la mémoire juive dès lors que celle-ci passe de l’univers sacré de la traditionà la littérature. L’attention portée aux questions d’imitation et de subversion permet de saisirles phénomènes de continuité et de discontinuité qui accompagnent la dissolution descommunautés traditionnelles et le passage à la modernité. Pour comprendre comment cestransformations s’opèrent au niveau textuel, dans le travail de mise en récit par lequel seredéfinit la culture, on mettra en relation les stratégies proprement littéraires d’intertextualité,de pastiche, de citation ou de parodie avec les actes mimétiques d’identification, de projectionet de jeu auxquels se livrent les personnages. La récurrence des questions de fidélité et detrahison, d’imitation et de rivalité, invite à interroger le rôle des modèles culturels et lamanière dont le transfert et le renouvellement de ceux-ci participent à la redéfinition de lamémoire du groupe. Le romanesque, parce qu’il met en acte des processus mimétiques qu’ilobserve de manière distanciée, rejoue et déjoue tout à la fois les mythes identitaires créés parla modernitéThrough the comparison of four novels written at different periods of the 20th century,in different languages and different places, but each marked by a common Polish-Jewishheritage – In Polish Woods by Joseph Opatoshu, Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer,The Last of the Just by André Schwarz-Bart and See Under: Love by David Grossman – theobject of this study is to observe the transformation of Jewish memory as it passes from thereligious sphere to that of secular literature. By investigating the themes of imitation andsubversion in literature, it is possible to understand the process of continuity and discontinuitywhich accompany the dissolution of traditional communities and their passage to modernity.To see how this transformation operates on a textual level, in the constitution of newnarratives by which culture is redefined, we will connect the literary strategies ofintertextuality, pastiche, reference or parody on the part of the authors with the mimetic actsof identifying, projection, and play performed by the characters. The recurrence of thequestions of fidelity and betrayal, of imitation and rivalry, invites us to investigate the role ofcultural models and the manner in which their transfer and renewal redefine group memory.The novel, by enacting mimetic processes which are observed from a perspective of distance,manages to both reproduce and at the same time dismantle the myths of identity created bymodernity
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Johnson, Seth. "HISTORY, MYTH AND SECULARISM ACROSS THE BORDERLANDS: THE WORK OF MICHAEL CHABON." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1392155557.
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Nicolae, Daniel Sebastian. "A mediaeval court physician at work : Ibn Jumay''s commentary on the Canon of Medicine." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e8e53786-7e15-4cf9-928b-dd492a740acd.
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Ibn Jumay''s (d. c. 594/1198) commentary on the Canon of Medicine by Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037) occupies an important place in the history of medicine for it is the first Canon commentary written by a physician and thus stands at the start of a tradition extending over 500 years. In addition, it is a so-far neglected source for our understanding of mediaeval Islamic medicine. The present thesis analyses the commentary with the aims of (1) determining the methods by which the court physician composed his treatise and (2) understanding why Ibn Jumay' undertook to prepare a commentary on one of the most thorough medical compendia of the middle ages. Chapter One presents the biography of Ibn Jumay', reveals that his religion had little impact on his writings and surveys his library which played a pivotal role in the composition of the commentary. Chapter Two investigates Ibn Jumay''s methodology in the entire commentary; it reveals that with his philological and source-critical methods Ibn Jumay' wanted to establish an authoritative reading of the Canon and to demonstrate the high degree of his erudition. Chapter Three focuses on selected passages in the commentary in form of three case studies. Ibn Jumay''s comments on anatomy/dissection, assorted materia medica and headaches demonstrate the court physician’s reverence for ancient authorities and his quest to revive and refine their teachings. Chapter Four contextualises Ibn Jumay''s methods and agenda by comparing them to those of other relevant scholars of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The thesis concludes by arguing that Ibn Jumay''s commentary was part of his revival of the art of medicine and his attempt to gain power in the medical tradition by attaching his name to one of the greatest scholars of his time — the ra'īs Ibn Sīnā.
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Turon, Mejías Ma Àngels. "La tradición judía y la narración en la pintura de Marc Chagall." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145861.
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Among the many readings of this painter, I try to draw up a narrative reading of his work, taking into account the Jewish tradition in which both his biography and his artistic work were deeply involved. Once I have discussed this point in the first part of my doctoral thesis, I suggest the possibility of developing a hermeneutic narrative in painting, with the help of other contributions. Chagall is an artist who passes on and expresses experiences, recreates moments of his childhood, constantly expressing love for his hometown, Vitebsk; he narrates building and making fiction of images and pictorial metaphorsDentro de las muchas lecturas de este pintor, intento hacer una lectura narrativa de su obra, teniendo en cuenta su integración en la tradición judía en cuya atmósfera pervive tanto su biografía como su producción artística. Una vez trabajado este primer espacio concreto de mi tesis, insinúo la posibilidad de elaborar con más ayudas y otras colaboraciones una hermenéutica narrativa en pintura. Chagall es un artista que transmite experiencias, recrea momentos de su infancia, trasmitiendo constantemente el amor a su pueblo natal, Vitebsk; narra construyendo y ficcionando imágenes y metáforas pictóricas
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Tonkin, Kati. "Marching into history : from the early novels of Joseph Roth to Radetzkymarsch and Die Kapuzinergruft." University of Western Australia. European Languages and Studies Discipline Group, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0085.
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This thesis takes as its starting point the consensus among scholars and interpreters of Joseph Roth’s work that his writing can be divided into two periods: an early “socialist” phase and a later “monarchist” phase. In opposition to this view, a reading of Roth’s novels is put forward in which his desire to make sense of post-Habsburg Central Europe provides the underlying logic, thus reconciling his early novels with Radetzkymarsch and Die Kapuzinergruft. The first chapter addresses the common contention that the transformation in Roth’s work is the result of a deep identity crisis. An alternative reading of the relevance of Roth’s identity to his work is offered: namely, that Roth’s conviction that identity is multivalent explains his rejection of both nationalism and other “solutions” to the problems of post-war Europe, a sentiment that finds expression in his early novels. The interpretation of these novels, which represent Roth’s early attempts to give literary form to contemporary reality, is the focus of the second chapter of the thesis. In the third chapter Radetzkymarsch is analyzed as a historical novel in the terms first proposed by Georg Lukács, as a novel which facilitates the understanding of the present through the portrayal of the past. Paradoxically, it is the historical form that most effectively captures and illuminates the complex reality of Roth’s contemporary times. The fourth and final chapter demonstrates that Die Kapuzinergruft is not simply an inferior sequel to Radetzkymarsch, a nostalgic evocation of an idealized lost Habsburg world and condemnation of the 1930s present, but rather continues the dialogue between past and present begun in Radetzkymarsch. In this novel, written before and in the immediate aftermath of the Anschluß of Austria to Nazi Germany, it is not Roth but his narrator who takes flight from reality, behaviour that Roth condemns as leading to the repetition of mistakes from the past and the failure to prevent the ultimate political catastrophe.
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Chung-ling, Shih, and 史宗玲. "Jewish Survival vs. Americanization:Dialogisms in Three American-Jewish Fiction Writers." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77946333166810169374.
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This dissertation mainly discusses a shared trait of "dual-track" Jewishness resulting from the dialogical interactions between both Jewish and Gentile cultural ideologies, as demonstrated in a host of literary works by Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick. These American-Jewish fiction writers,highly visible in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s respectively, inscribe their dual-track" (Jewish and Gentile) creative courses and cultural traces in their works,thereby qualifying themselves as "dual-track" Jewish writers. The conflicts between Jewish affirmation and anti-Jewish liberation, Jewishadherence and anti-Jewish detachment, constitute the American-Jewry''s "dual-track" Jewishness as well as Jewish dialogisms. Malamud''s moral fictions raiseyou-live-for-me-and-I-live-for-you" existential dialogism," Roth''s protest ficitons demonstrate "ideological dialogism," based on the war between anti-Jewish individualism and Jewish ethnocentrism, and Ozick''s liturgical fictions illustrate "Judaic dialogism," deriving from some collision between Judaic and Christian cultures. When Malamud "moralizes" Jewishness, Roth "ideologizes" it and Ozick "Judaifies" it, they all approach it from a cross-ethnic, inter-cultural angle; namely, the Jewish vs. Gentile framework. In tackling the subject of "dual-track" Jewishness, they have rendered it, intheir own ways, a caution of or an acess to self-understanding, bringing frominter-ethnic contacts and cultural evolution rather than from a negative tabooor a damaging matter threatening the survival of modern American Jews on the whole.
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Hart, Alexander. "Writing the Diaspora : a bibliography and critical commentary on post-Shoah English-language fiction in Australia, South Africa, and Canada." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6638.
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In the aftermath of the Shoah (Holocaust)—the mass murder of 6,000,000
Jews—Jean-Paul Sartre wrote Reflexions sur la Question Juive (1946), in which he
concluded that the fate of the Jews, the fate of the individual non-Jew, and the fate of the entire world are inextricably and reciprocally intertwined. Building on Sartre's perception, Portrait of a Jew (1962) and The Liberation of the Jew (1966) describe what the author, Albert Memmi, terms "the universal Jewish fate": that of being the paradigmatic "colonized" Other—insofar as the Jews are a particularly oppressed minority, that is, their
marginalization epitomizes the fate of all humanity. Further, Memmi argues both that "to be a Jewish writer is ... to express the Jewish fate" and that a "true Jewish literature" is necessarily one which revolts against the imposition and acceptance of this fate. Sartre's
and Memmi's insights posit that Jewish consciousness acts upon both national and world consciousness. Memmi suggests that one means of expressing the Jewish consciousness is through literature. In their imaginative interpretations of the post-Shoah interconnections between the Jew, the nation, and the world, modern Jewish fiction writers of the Diaspora (dispersion)
—at least those whose work foregrounds tropes of Jewish sensibility, incorporating Jewish characters and themes—often delineate a world which, in the aftermath of Auschwitz, is socially and existentially even more precarious than it was before the war. This study examines post-Shoah Jewish consciousness and its relation to national/world consciousness,as represented in the English-language Jewish fiction of Australia, South Africa, and Canada, Commonwealth countries whose diverse Jewish literatures have been overshadowed by the predominant English-language Jewish literary culture of the U.S.A. The structure of this study is bipartite. Part B is an indexed Bibliography enumerating primary works by Jewish prose fiction writers of Australia, Canada, and South Africa. Part A is a critical commentary on Part B. The Introduction (Chapter 1) outlines the
theoretical bases for the study. The three following chapters scrutinize Jewish Australian (Chapter 2), Jewish South African (Chapter 3), and Jewish Canadian (Chapter 4) fiction. Among the writers considered are Australians B.N. Jubal, Judah Waten, David Martin, Morris Lurie, Serge Liberman, and Lily Brett; South Africans Nadine Gordimer, Dan Jacobson, Jillian Becker, Antony Sher, and Rose Zwi; and Canadians Henry Kreisel, A.M. Klein, Adele Wiseman, Mordecai Richler, and Robert Majzels. Each of these three chapters follows a similar format: a description of the origin, history, and demography of the Jewish community; an outline of the important pre-World War II Jewish fiction writers and their work; an examination of representative post-Shoah works; and concluding remarks about
the ways in which the works under consideration here contest and revise both the canons of nation and national literature and the very concepts of nation, canon, and canon-making. An Epilogue (Chapter 5) contextualizes the thematic patterns common to the Jewish fiction of the three countries and suggests ways in which this fiction can be located within the larger framework of Jewish Literature.
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Lewis, Naomi K. "Cricket in a Fist: a Novel in Seven Stories." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1882/178.
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Cricket in a Fist is composed of seven stories about a secular Jewish family settled in Canada. The central character, Ginny Reilly, is raised by her mother and grandmother, who emigrated from the Netherlands after surviving the Holocaust. When she is thirty-seven, Ginny suffers a head injury that causes temporary memory loss and a permanent personality change, and she becomes a self-help guru. Following a cultural crisis such as the Jewish Holocaust, a family may disconnect itself from cultural memory, and a family without cultural memory, like an amnesiac patient, must reformulate a sense of identity. As the characters in Cricket in a Fist grapple for an unblemished identity in Canada, they try to dismiss their unruly history. Analogously, the conscious formation of self is the basis of Ginny’s self-help philosophy, which urges wilful forgetfulness as a means to cast off all traces of irresolvable ambiguity and traumatic memory.
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Simonová, Anna. "Bernard Malamud's Selected Fiction in the Context of Black-Jewish Literary Relations." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-343135.
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Although Bernard Malamud's fiction has been frequently regarded as allegorical and symbolic, Malamud did not avoid the period's social issues in his works, such as the racial question and the changing nature of relationship between American Jews and African Americans. The present thesis aims to discuss Malamud's selected fiction dealing with Black- Jewish relations, namely short stories "Angel Levine," (1955) "Black Is My Favorite Color" (1963) and the novel The Tenants, (1971) and to place them into the context of Black-Jewish relations in the United States and of Black-Jewish literary dialogues and the tensions they express. It thus seeks to evaluate Malamud's role in the discourse of Black-Jewish relations in America. Calling upon a theoretical framework, outlined in chapter 2, based on philosophical and sociological findings of Judith Butler, John Searle, and Michael Omi with Howard Winant, the study examines the role of language and literature in constructing the Self and the Other (understood both as individual and collective identities, including categories of race and ethnicity), suggesting thus that literary texts, such as Malamud's selected fiction, are a part of discursive dialogue through and against which American Jews and Blacks construct their identities. Apart from the approaches to...
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Cordeiro-Sipin, Debora. "Issues of identity in the narratives of Jewish authors from the Southern-cone : Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay /." Diss., 2005. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04112005-164931.
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Kirzane, Jessica Kirzane. "The Melting Plot: Interethnic Romance in Jewish American Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D85430WR.
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This dissertation argues that interethnic romance narratives reflect and express central religious, political, racial, and gendered identities and agendas of Jewish American literature and culture in the early twentieth century. Chapter One shows that fin-de-siècle Reform Jewish women authors employed interethnic romance narratives to express a belief in America as exceptional as a place of religious and gender egalitarianism. Chapter Two turns to journalist and fiction writer Abraham Cahan, who wrote interethnic romance narratives to weigh the balance between idealism and pragmatism, socialist universalist values and the principles of Jewish nationalism in determining the character of Jewishness in America. Chapter Three demonstrates that Jewish American women’s popular fictions of interethnic romance in the 1920s employed interethnic romance plots to show women’s independence and mobility in light of early feminism and to express the limitations of feminist discourse when it ran counter to their ethnic identities. Chapter Four describes how narratives of interethnic romance written by Yiddish writers I. I. Shvarts, Joseph Opatoshu, Isaac Raboy, and David Ignatov employ tropes of interethnic romance together with geographical border crossings into non-immigrant or non-Jewish spaces, co-locating physical dislocation and disorientation and intimate interpersonal desire and unease. Together, these studies demonstrate the significance of interethnic romance in the American Jewish collective imaginary in this period and reveal the flexibility and longevity of this central theme in American Jewish discourse.
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Samuels, Michelle. "Meat: three short stories & five novel chapters." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/14520.
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Williams, Gillian Patricia. "A talmudic perspective on the Old Testament diseases, physicians and remedies." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3318.
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The ancient Near Eastern cultures and the Babylonian Talmud are examined to ascertain whether they can elucidate Biblical descriptions of disease (many of which are mentioned by the Talmudic rabbis in the course of their discussions) to render a better understanding of the Biblical text.
Archaeological evidence can verify the existence of tuberculosis, gout and leprosy in Old Testament times because these diseases leave specific lesions on ancient bones.
The ancient Israelites used amulets and incantations to ward off or treat illnesses despite Biblical prohibitions. This use was echoed in both the ancient Near Eastern cultures and in Talmudic times because some rabbis realised their effectiveness, but the majority doubted their usefulness. Idolatry, necromancy and sorcery were practiced and demons played a role in illness. Physicians, healers, herbal remedies, therapies and folk medicine in Biblical and Talmudic times are investigated.Biblical Archaeology
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Zeller, Dov S. "The Book of Hats." 2012. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/966.
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The Book of Hats" is a novel of adult literary fiction that comes in six hat-inspired sections. The novel opens late on a Saturday night when the phone rings and Ida Velikowsky, seventy-year-old wannabe tough guy who, in actuality, is a bit of a marshmallow, is woken out of a dream of hats. She runs into the living room and picks up the phone and hears on the other end of it the unwelcome voice of her no-goodnik brother Benny. She hasn't talked to him in forty years.
Ida is someone who likes to keep her world small. She plays her cards close to her chest and faces each day as if it were an obstacle course in which memory and intimacy are the things that must be avoided at all costs. She is most comfortable when reading the “National Geographic” and avoiding friends. For nearly six years, since the death of her lover Gertie, she’s managed to stay in a fairly comfortable state of emotional shut-down. Then Benny calls and she finds herself vulnerable to memory, hope and rage, and even more painful, regret.
She doesn't want to see Benny. She knows it's not a good idea to see him. But she finds herself wondering if, by seeing him, something in her life could be restored. The novel opens with Benny's call and moves, comic and menacing, toward a possible reunion.
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Herer, Lisbeth Diane Saladin Linda. "Tropes of otherness abjection, sublimity and Jewish subjectivity in Enlightenment England /." 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07182004-152345.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2004.Advisor: Dr. Linda Saladin-Adams, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Humanities. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 30, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.
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Isaacs, Carole Ann. "Problematique de l'identite Juive dans des oevres choises de Patrick Modiano." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20979.
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Towards the end of the 1960s in France we witness the awakening of the memory of
the Holocaust and the Occupation which coincides with the publication of Patrick
Modiano’s first novel, La place de l’étoile. It is from this time that Jewish memory of
the Holocaust begins to surface and we see the emergence of a literature of the
post-Holocaust generation. Modiano belongs to this generation that, being deprived
of a personal memory of the Holocaust, turns to this period in a quest for roots and
identity. Like his Jewish colleagues, Modiano struggles to come to terms with a past
that he has not experienced and an absence of memory. This dissertation analyses
Modiano’s use of the period of the Holocaust as signifier of Jewish identity in four of
his novels in order to highlight the role of the issue of Jewish identity in the
construction of a textual identityVers la fin des années 60 on voit en France le réveil de la mémoire de la Shoah et de l’Occupation qui coïncide avec la publication du premier roman de Patrick Modiano, La place de l’étoile. C’est à partir de cette époque que la mémoire juive de la Shoah va pouvoir se faire entendre et qu’on constate l’émergence d’une littérature de la génération d’après la Shoah. Modiano appartient à cette génération qui, étant dépourvue d’une mémoire personnelle de la Shoah, se tourne vers cette période dans une quête de racines et d’identité. Comme ses confrères juifs, Modiano a du mal à se réconcilier avec un passé qu’il n’a pas vécu et une absence de mémoire. Cette étude examine de près le recours de Modiano aux années de la Shoah en tant que signifiant de l’identité juive dans quatre ouvrages afin de mettre en exergue le rôle de la problématique de l’identité juive dans la construction d’une identité textuelle chez cet écrivain
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LÖWOVÁ, Markéta. "MUDr. Emil Flusser - dětský lékař jako posel humanity. Příspěvek ke studiu židovské intelektuality v první polovině 20. století." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-80126.
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The presented diploma thesis is conserned with the personality of Budweiser?s doctor Emil Flusser and tries to enter his intellectual world with the historical-anthropological method. Based on his two main writings analysis (Křičící kojenec, Válka jako nemoc) and preserved souces analysis (press of the period, the doctor?s own texts), German-speeking Jewish doctor Emil Flusser, is placed into both czech and german cultural society in Budweis. This diploma thesis is focused not only on his doctor?s work, war and protest against the war are main themes of this diploma thesis. Since Dr. Emil Flusser knew important people (Albert Einstein, Karl Kraus), based on contemporary press study I?ve tried to reconstruct their art of world understanding in period close to the second world war.