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Jewish Primitivism

Jewish Primitivism

Spinner, Samuel J.

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1503628272
ISBN13: 9781503628274
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jul 27 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

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 subjugated and denigrated--was a powerful artistic critique of the modern world and was adopted by Jewish writers and artists to explore the urgent questions surrounding their own identity and status in Europe as insiders and outsiders. Jewish primitivism found expression in a variety of forms in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German literature, photography, and graphic art, including in the work of figures such as Franz Kafka, Y.L. Peretz, S. An-sky, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Moï Ver.

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