Jewish PrimitivismPub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.003.0002
S. Spinner
{"title":"The Beginnings of Jewish Primitivism","authors":"S. Spinner","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 shows how an incipient Jewish literary modernism based on the aesthetics of romantic nationalism was challenged by the emergence of avant-garde primitivist critique. The folklore-inspired Jewish literature of the turn of the twentieth century was influential culturally and politically, in its contribution to the formation of a modern Jewish literary canon. But it also prompted a backlash by members of the avant-garde who cast the Herderian folklorism of the neo-Romantics as mere “stylization” and called for the aesthetic, but not its subject matter, to be discarded. This critique opened the door to a Jewish primitivism that sought to push beyond neo-Romantic aesthetics while remaining ambivalent about its ethno-nationalist politics.","PeriodicalId":305714,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Primitivism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128104841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 4 THE POLITICS OF JEWISH PRIMITIVISM Else Lasker- Schüler and Uri Zvi Grinberg","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628281-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628281-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305714,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Primitivism","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131312885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion THE END OF JEWISH PRIMITIVISM","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628281-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628281-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305714,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Primitivism","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131334701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jewish PrimitivismPub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.003.0004
S. Spinner
{"title":"The Possibility of Jewish Primitivism","authors":"S. Spinner","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 presents Franz Kafka as a Jewish primitivist. This runs counter to the prevailing view that sees Kafka apart from broader trends in European Jewish literature. Kafka’s works connect the contradictions of Jewish primitivism to his ambivalence about his Jewish identity. This perspective casts a new light on several of Kafka’s core texts, including “Before the Law” and “A Report to an Academy.” Kafka’s presumed avoidance of introducing Jewishness into his aesthetics is actually a manifestation of the instability and critique of authenticity at the heart of Jewish primitivism.","PeriodicalId":305714,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Primitivism","volume":"57 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120999524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 5 THE AESTHETICS OF JEWISH PRIMITIVISM I Der Nister’s Literary Abstraction","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503628281-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503628281-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":305714,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Primitivism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130765862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}