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Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography

Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography

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Literary CriticismJudaismAnthropology

ISBN10: 0253019621
ISBN13: 9780253019622
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Apr 1 2016
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of ethnoliterature across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience, readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.

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