...Georges-Elia Sarfati This essay is a contribution to the theory as well as to the critical analysis of doxa. Analyzing French dictionaries of the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, it shows how they organize, transform, and develop dominant reprensentations of Jewish identity. It thus...

... translations, Einspruch produced a version that, in more fully mobilizing the Hebrew components of Yiddish, was designed to remind his Jewish readers that Christianity emerged in a Jewish context. This translation style also reflected and even embodied new trends in the conceptualization of conversion from...

...Jeffrey A. Grossman This essay challenges the standard view of the relations between two major Jewish corpora: German and Yiddish–East European culture and literature. In that view the writings of German Jews are steeped in either disdain for or romantic fantasies about East European Jews. Yiddish...

... represented the coalescence of the private and public spheres. What reinforced the meshing of private and public health was the “work as rescue” strategy, adopted by some Jewish Judenräte (ghetto administrative councils), on the assumption that the Nazis would not kill the workers they needed. As a result...

...Ken Frieden Sea travel was an influential literary genre in Europe in the eighteenth century, and this genre subsequently influenced enlightened and Hasidic Jewish circles. As a result, the genre of sea narratives assumed a significant role in the rise of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature...

...Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska The article focuses on Julian Stryjkowski's best-known novel, Voices in the Darkness , analyzed in the context of this leading Jewish Polish writer's biography and his complicated linguistic and cultural position. A special emphasis is placed on the author's use...

...Hana Wirth-Nesher Traces of Yiddish recurrently manifest themselves in contemporary Jewish literature written in other languages. Representation of Yiddish discourse in recent years has drawn on two significant facets of the language and its history: the tragic fate of Europe's Yiddish-speaking...

... talk, and Hasidic speech with parody. Not until 1864–66, however, did the new orality enter its second phase, when the Hebrew writer Shalom-Yankev Abramovitsh fashioned an autonomous Yiddish-speaking voice and manipulated the Jewish textual tradition at will. Sholem Aleichem and I. L. Peretz further...

... University Press ). Even-Zohar Itamar Harshav Benjamin , eds. 1986 “Hebrew and Yiddish: Literature, Language, Culture,” Special issue , Hasifrut 35 – 36 . Fishman Johsua A. 1981 “The Sociology of Yiddish: A Foreword,” in Never Say Die! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish...

... – 24 ( Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House); and Cecile Esther Kuznitz, “Yiddish Studies,” in The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, edited by Martin Goodman, 541 – 71 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). See also the “Yiddish Studies” bibliography by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Kru- tikov...

... Bashevis Singer’s Poland: Exile and Return; 1994); Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology, with Antony Polonsky (2001); Odcienie toz˙samos´ci: Literatura z˙ydowska jako zjawisko wieloj˛ezyczne (Shades of Identity: Jewish Literature as a Multilingual Phenomenon; 2004); Kazimierz vel Kuzmir...

... and editions All manuscripts and editions cited from the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Talmud Text Databank of the Saul Lieberman Institute for Talmudic Research at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Available by subscription at www.lieberman-institute.com . Manuscripts Die Bayerische...

...˛. Niemieckoje˛zyczni poeci pochodzenia z˙ydowskiego (Place and Name: German-Speaking Poets of Jewish Origin). Warsaw: IS PAN, 2014. 336 pp. Adam Lipszyc, Czas wiersza. Paul Celan i teologie literackie (The Time of Verse: Paul Celan and Literary Theologies). Krako´ w: Austeria, 2015. 204 pp. Adam...

... is the William E. Stirton Professor of History, director of the honors program, and director of theVoice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Project at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. He is the author of The Distorted Image: German Jewish Perceptions of Germans and Germany, 1920–1935 (1975...

... of Abraham Cahan , translated by Leon Stein, Abraham P. Conan, and Lynn Davison (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. 1970 [1896] Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, reprinted in Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom (New York: Dover). Cassedy, Steven 1997 To the Other Shore:The Russian Jewish...

...). Bertaux, Daniel 1981 Biography and Society: The Life Story Approach in the Social Sciences (Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE). Binet, Helene 1999 Jewish Museum Berlin: Architect Daniel Libeskind (Berlin: G + B Arts International). Bloxham, Donald 2001 The Holocaust on Trial: The War Crimes Trials...

... Fishman David 1973 “Yiddish in Israel: The Press, Radio, Theatre, and Book Publishing,” Yiddish 1 ( 2 ): 4 – 23 . Gilman Sander 1986 Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ). Gluzman Michael...

...: University of Illinois Press). Browning, Christopher R. 2000 Nazi Policy, Jewish Labor, German Killers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Greene, Joshua M., and Shiva Kumar, eds. 2001 Witness: Voices from the Holocaust (New York: Free Press). Gross, Jan T. 2001 Neighbors...

... 1992 A Jewish Boyhood in Poland: Remembering Kolbuszowa (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press). Salsitz, Norman, 2002 Three Homelands: Memories of a Jewish Life in Poland, Israel, and America (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press). Salsitz, Norman, and Amalie Petranker Salsitz 1990...

...: Raduga). Gross, Jan T. 2001 Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). Kruk, Herman 2002 The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944 , edited and introduced...