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This volume is devoted to selected aspects of the culture and language of the two largest Jewish Diaspora groups, Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The authors analyze the latest European research tendencies related to both Jewish factions. Questions concern the historical, social and cultural contact with non-Jewish environment, the problems of Jewish identity, the condition of languages in both groups (Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Hakitía), and Jewish anthroponymy. The reflections concern various areas of contemporary Germany, Poland, Russia, the Balkan countries, Italy, the countries of North Africa inhabited by both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews. For the analyses, not only documents, manuscripts, press articles, and literary texts serve as a basis but also the artifacts of material culture.

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Contents: Andrzej Kątny/Izabela Olszewska/Aleksandra Twardowska: Preface: Ashkenazim and Sephardim. A European Perspective – Andrzej Kątny/Izabela Olszewska/Aleksandra Twardowska: Vorwort: Aschkenasim und Sephardim. Eine europäische Perspektive – Krinka Vidaković-Petrov: The Ashkenazi-Sephardi Dialogue in Yugoslavia 1918-1941 – Milica Jakóbiec-Semkowowa: Sarajevo’s Sephardim and Ashkenazim in a Literary Mirror of Their Own and Foreign Authors – Maia Daltcheva: Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria - 1330 Years of Coexistence – Rafael Arnold: Postumer Kulturkontakt - Aschkenasische und sephardische Sepulkraltraditionen auf dem Jüdischen Friedhof in Venedig – Magdalena Sitarz: Jiddische Literatur und Kultur in der deutschsprachigen Presse vom ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts – Izabela Olszewska: Ostjuden vs. Westjuden. Zu den kulturellen Differenzen innerhalb des europäischen Judentums am Beispiel der Flugschrift von Nathan Birnbaum Was sind die Ostjuden? Zur ersten Information (1916) – Joanna Lisek: Orthodox Yiddishism in Beys Yakov Magazine in the Context of Religious Jewish Feminism in Poland – Susanne Marten-Finnis: Staatliche Zensur, Selbstzensur und Mehrsprachigkeit in der jüdischen Presse Russlands (1804-1906) – Zofia Abramowicz: The Role of the Name in the Identification of Jews in the Podlasie in the 16th-20th Centuries – Aleksandra Twardowska: The Characterization of Male Names among the Sephardi Jews in Sarajevo – Mohamed El-Madkouri Maataoui: Die Hakitía zwischen Ursprung und Wiederaufbau – Paloma Díaz-Mas/Pilar Romeu Ferré: Being Multilingual: Judeo-Spanish as a Homeland in the Diaspora as Reflected in Jewish Sephardic Memoirs – Agnieszka August-Zarębska: The Representations of kurtijo and Their Function in Contemporary Judeo-Spanish Poetry – Alla Kozhinova/Alena Sourkova: Polyglossia of the Book of Daniel and Its Reflection in Text Structure of Vilnius Old Testament Florilegium: On Some Problems of Jewish Translation Technique – Piotr Kallas: The Last Historian? The Wandering Jew as a Chronicler of the World.

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: 31/12/2013
      ISBN13: 9783631643082, 978-3631643082
      ISBN10: 363164308X

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      Book Synopsis
      This volume is devoted to selected aspects of the culture and language of the two largest Jewish Diaspora groups, Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The authors analyze the latest European research tendencies related to both Jewish factions. Questions concern the historical, social and cultural contact with non-Jewish environment, the problems of Jewish identity, the condition of languages in both groups (Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Hakitía), and Jewish anthroponymy. The reflections concern various areas of contemporary Germany, Poland, Russia, the Balkan countries, Italy, the countries of North Africa inhabited by both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews. For the analyses, not only documents, manuscripts, press articles, and literary texts serve as a basis but also the artifacts of material culture.

      Table of Contents
      Contents: Andrzej Kątny/Izabela Olszewska/Aleksandra Twardowska: Preface: Ashkenazim and Sephardim. A European Perspective – Andrzej Kątny/Izabela Olszewska/Aleksandra Twardowska: Vorwort: Aschkenasim und Sephardim. Eine europäische Perspektive – Krinka Vidaković-Petrov: The Ashkenazi-Sephardi Dialogue in Yugoslavia 1918-1941 – Milica Jakóbiec-Semkowowa: Sarajevo’s Sephardim and Ashkenazim in a Literary Mirror of Their Own and Foreign Authors – Maia Daltcheva: Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria - 1330 Years of Coexistence – Rafael Arnold: Postumer Kulturkontakt - Aschkenasische und sephardische Sepulkraltraditionen auf dem Jüdischen Friedhof in Venedig – Magdalena Sitarz: Jiddische Literatur und Kultur in der deutschsprachigen Presse vom ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts – Izabela Olszewska: Ostjuden vs. Westjuden. Zu den kulturellen Differenzen innerhalb des europäischen Judentums am Beispiel der Flugschrift von Nathan Birnbaum Was sind die Ostjuden? Zur ersten Information (1916) – Joanna Lisek: Orthodox Yiddishism in Beys Yakov Magazine in the Context of Religious Jewish Feminism in Poland – Susanne Marten-Finnis: Staatliche Zensur, Selbstzensur und Mehrsprachigkeit in der jüdischen Presse Russlands (1804-1906) – Zofia Abramowicz: The Role of the Name in the Identification of Jews in the Podlasie in the 16th-20th Centuries – Aleksandra Twardowska: The Characterization of Male Names among the Sephardi Jews in Sarajevo – Mohamed El-Madkouri Maataoui: Die Hakitía zwischen Ursprung und Wiederaufbau – Paloma Díaz-Mas/Pilar Romeu Ferré: Being Multilingual: Judeo-Spanish as a Homeland in the Diaspora as Reflected in Jewish Sephardic Memoirs – Agnieszka August-Zarębska: The Representations of kurtijo and Their Function in Contemporary Judeo-Spanish Poetry – Alla Kozhinova/Alena Sourkova: Polyglossia of the Book of Daniel and Its Reflection in Text Structure of Vilnius Old Testament Florilegium: On Some Problems of Jewish Translation Technique – Piotr Kallas: The Last Historian? The Wandering Jew as a Chronicler of the World.

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