"This collection of articles is an outcome of the international academic conference on Joseph Opatoshu held in Regensburg on 22-24 April 2012"--Acknowledgements.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Bibliography of Joseph Opatoshu: pages 231-265.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Joseph Opatoshu's search for Yidishkayt / Gennady Estraikh, Sabine Koller, and Mikhail Krutikov -- In New York Velder : Yosef/Joseph Opatoshu : constructing a multinational, 20th century, (very) modern Yiddish identity / Dan Opatoshu -- Soviet dreams of a cultural exile / Gennady Estraikh -- Faint praise : the early critical reception of Joseph Opatoshu's In poylishe velder / Ellen Kellman -- The two souls of Mordkhe: In poylishe velder / Sabine Koller -- In poylishe velder and the Brothers Karamazov : a comparative study / Harriet Murav -- "Such a rag-bag" : the historical novel as spectacle, neo-Hasidic hagiography, and pseudo-territory / Jan Schwarz -- A tog in Regensburg and Elye Bokher :. Opatoshu's 1933 vision of early Yiddish and medieval Ashkenazi culture, his scholarly-Yiddishist models, and means of representation / Roland Gruschka -- A tog in Regensburg : scholarly research and a novel's outline / Shlomo Berger -- The flesh and the spirit : Opatoshu's novel Di tensterin (The dancer) / Avraham Novershtern -- Cityscapes of Yiddishkayt : Opatoshu's New York trilogy / Mikhail Krutikov -- Opatoshu's eroticism, American obscenity / Josh Lambert -- Yiddish exceptionalism : lynching, race, and racism in Opatoshu's Lintsheray / Marc Caplan -- Mentshn un khayes (1938) : snapshots of Jewish life in America and Europe / Astrid Starck-Adler -- Literature fo children? : the case of Joseph Opatoshu / Evita Wiecki -- Bibliography of Joseph Opatoshu / Holger Nath.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Although he occupied a key position in the transnational Jewish culture during his lifetime, Joseph Opatoshu (1886-1954) has until recently been neglected by scholars. This volume brings together literary specialists and historians working in Jewish and Slavic Studies, who analyse Opatoshu's quest for modern Jewish identity from different perspectives"--Page 4 of cover.
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Opatoshu, Joseph,1886-1954
Opatoshu, Joseph,1886-1954-- Criticism and interpretation