- Summary
- "'Salvage Poetics : Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies' explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the post-Holocaust decades. These texts, Jelen argues, served to help clarify the role of East European Jewish identity in the construction of a post-Holocaust American one. In her analysis of a variety of "hybrid" texts - those that exist on the border between ethnography and art - Jelen traces the gradual shift from verbal to visual Jewish literacy among Jewish Americans after the Holocaust."--taken from back cover.
- Series
- Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Jelen, Sheila E., author.
- Published
- Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2020]
©2020
- Locale
- United States
Europe, Eastern
Eastern Europe
- Contents
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Acknowledgments
Prologue : In search of a postwar Jewishness
An introduction to salvage poetics : Anecdotes, artifacts, antidotes, and art
1. Salvage (Selvedge) translation : Maurice Samuel's 'The World of Sholem Aleichem' and 'Prince of the Ghetto'
2. Salvage inwardness : The Hasidic tale in Abraham Joshua Heschel's 'The Earth Is the Lord's'
3. Salvage literary inference : The inner world of the shtetl in 'Life Is with People'
4. Salvage montage : The missing piece in 'A Treasury of Yiddish Stories', 'The Golden Tradition', and 'Image before My Eyes'
5. Auto-ethnographic salvage : Roman Vishniac's 'A Vanished World'
6. Patronymic salvage : Daughters in search of their fathers
Postscript : Intertextuality in post-Holocaust American Jewish salvage texts
Notes
Works coted
Index.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Prologue : In search of a postwar Jewishness -- An introduction to salvage poetics : Anecdotes, artifacts, antidotes, and art -- 1. Salvage (Selvedge) translation : Maurice Samuel's 'The World of Sholem Aleichem' and 'Prince of the Ghetto' -- 2. Salvage inwardness : The Hasidic tale in Abraham Joshua Heschel's 'The Earth Is the Lord's' -- 3. Salvage literary inference : The inner world of the shtetl in 'Life Is with People' -- 4. Salvage montage : The missing piece in 'A Treasury of Yiddish Stories', 'The Golden Tradition', and 'Image before My Eyes' -- 5. Auto-ethnographic salvage : Roman Vishniac's 'A Vanished World' -- 6. Patronymic salvage : Daughters in search of their fathers -- Postscript : Intertextuality in post-Holocaust American Jewish salvage texts -- Notes -- Works coted -- Index.
