Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures

Olaf Terpitz is Associate Professor for Jewish Literatures. He has published widely on European-Jewish literatures, including the German edition of Sh. Ansky’s Yiddish diary Der Khurbn in Polen, Galizien und der Bukowina. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg (2019).Marianne Windsperger has studied Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna and is working on her dissertation on afterlives of Yiddish in contemporary literature. She is a research assistant at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionOlaf Terpitz and Marianne WindspergerPART 1Literary Agents1 “Folk-lore”, Modernism and Psychoanalysis in the Work of Isaac Bashevis SingerAneta Stepien2 Georg Brandes and the Transnational VisionSøren Blak HjortshøjPART 2Literary Figures3 Autobiography as an Intermediary between Russian and Yiddish LiteratureOsip Dymov’s Vos ikh gedenk (Zikhroynes)/What I remember (Memoirs)Thomas Mikula4 Nokhem Shtif and His Berlin FeuilletonsHolger Nath5 Literary Figures of Encounter and TransformationAmbivalences of the “Schlemiel,” the “Schelm” and the “Don Quijote”Olaf TerpitzPART 3Writing Voids6 Narrating the Other, Discovering the Self?Recuperations of Yugoslav Jewry in Miljenko Jergovic’s Ruta TannenbaumYvonne Zivkovic7 “There Is No Need for Thriller Novels about Deportation!”The Postwar Reception and Criticism of the ‘Literature of Experience’ in HungaryTamás Kisantal8 Georges Perec’s Writing SpaceRecherche d’espace perduThomas NoldenPART 4Making of Literatures9 Surfaces of EncounterModern Hebrew Literature and Its Readers in the Early Twentieth CenturyLilah Nethanel10 A Kulturnation in VerseYiddish and German Folk Poetry Anthologies in the National Jewish DiscourseCarmen ReichertPART 5Perceiving and Creating Languages11 Past Pastries. Remembering and Rewriting Judeo-Spanish Food Names in Contemporary LiteraturesElisabeth GüdeIndex