{"title":"Roman familial et territoire : Les Contrebandiers d’Oser Warszawski","authors":"Carole Ksiazenicer-Matheron","doi":"10.4000/yod.647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/yod.647","url":null,"abstract":"Oser Warszawski (1898-1944) became famous at the age of 21 thanks to this novel. It was written in a time when Yiddish literature was trying to reformulate its modernity in relation to classical heritage. Published ten years earlier than the sagas of I.J. Singer and M. Kulbak, in which the historical epic meets an underlying family romance, Warszawski’s Smugglers seems to embody a more humorous side of family romance, just like some of Faulkner’s works (As I lay dying or The Hamlet, for example). The main difference with the historical family epics drawn from naturalism is however the concept of territory, which refers to space and not only to time. Smugglers is the story of a Polish shtetl, close to Warsaw, occupied by the German army during World War I. In reaction to their misery, the inhabitants of this shtetl start to smuggle goods on the black market. This essay analyzes the role of space and of the smugglers’ territory in the novel. On this spatial and historical background, the plot evolves through a dynamic of adaptation and focuses successively on three different characters, who symbolize three different steps in the life of this family of smugglers.","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"1 1","pages":"11-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70082989","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":"Les noms de mois dans le manuscrit hébreu no 1414","authors":"Simon Neuberg","doi":"10.4000/yod.286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/yod.286","url":null,"abstract":"Manuscript no.1414 from the French National Library, dated from 1246/47, contains a list of twelve names of Christian months written with Hebrew letters. This list must be considered as the embryonic state of Jewish representations of the Christian calendar which became more developed in later documents. It is amongst the oldest written examples of Eastern Yiddish. These names provide new elements to linguistic research about pre-Christian denominations of the Germanic calendar. This article is a detailed study of the etymological and dialectological questions raised by these appellations. Within the context of Yiddish studies, this text shows that from the time of the earliest linguistic documents that we have up to 1349, relations between Christians and Jews caused a direct influence of German dialects on Yiddish.","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"1 1","pages":"119-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70082303","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":"Langue juive ou jargon : Les dénominations du yiddish en Pologne avant 1939","authors":"Natalia Krynicka","doi":"10.4000/YOD.281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/YOD.281","url":null,"abstract":"The complex attitude of Yiddish and Polish speakers, Jewish and non-Jewish, towards Yiddish, is reflected in the way the language is named. These designations evolve along the years, often following international – and particularly German – terminology. This evolution is not confined to a merely linguistic question: it reveals deep identity splits and is strongly linked to ideological and political choices. This article provides a detailed analysis of this evolution in newspapers and literature as well as in dictionaries and encyclopaedias. It explains the variations of point of view subtly implied by each terminological choice.","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"1 1","pages":"99-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70082175","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":"Wווייכערט מיט : A propos du roman inédit de David Vogel en yiddish","authors":"Lilach Nethanel","doi":"10.4000/YOD.657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/YOD.657","url":null,"abstract":"At the beginning of the 1940s, Hebrew writer David Vogel (1891-1944) started to write a Yiddish novel for the first time. As an Austrian citizen living in France, he had been held in a camp for suspicious foreigners. His narrative, inspired by this experience, remained untitled after he was captured and sent to death by the Gestapo at the beginning of 1944. Its original version has never been published.This article gives an overview of critical approaches to this text that have been published up to now. It proposes an analysis based on Merleau-Ponty’s linguistic thought and on the principles of literary genetics. The manuscript, with its deletions and additions, is approached in the light of all the languages in which the author could have written in and that leave their mark on the narrative. The author of this article argues that the poetics of foreign language is more central than the question of Vogel’s linguistic identity. His writing in Yiddish thus poses the problem of the status of this language in a world where things are no longer called what they were.","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"1 1","pages":"61-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70082584","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":"Le théâtre yiddish Gimpel de Lemberg : une Odyssée oubliée","authors":"Delphine Bechtel","doi":"10.4000/yod.659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/yod.659","url":null,"abstract":"The specialists of Yiddish theatre have largely ignored the importance of the Yiddish theatre in Lemberg (Lwow or, today, Lviv, in the Ukraine), founded in 1889 by Jakob Ber Gimpel (1840-1906). When the founder died, his descendants took charge of the theatre, until the war put an end to its activities in 1939. The article recounts the fifty years during which the Gimpel theatre, despite being rashly accused of spreading “shund” (second-rank culture), was a central institution of Yiddish culture in Galicia. Many testimonies of Galician Jews, written in Yiddish, German, Polish or English mention the important role played by the Yiddish theatre of Lemberg in their intellectual evolution. The Gimpel theatre attracted important figures of American Yiddish theatre and became a breeding ground for artists who then left for Berlin, Vienna, New York or even Hollywood, like Rudolf Schildkraut or Paul Muni. The article also recalls the three generations of the Gimpel family (actors, musicians), who played a role of mediation between scholarly and popular culture, between Polish, Austrian, Jewish, and American spheres, between various traditions and identities. Artists from Lemberg also had an important part in the Yiddish music produced at the beginning of the XXth century. These voices from the past, now audible again thanks to the Internet, are waiting to be included in new cultural projects.","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"1 1","pages":"83-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70083266","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":"Au commencement était la pratique","authors":"Ron Naiweld","doi":"10.4000/yod.669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/yod.669","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main characteristics of rabbinic ethics is that it does not presuppose that a perfect knowledge of the truth is necessary to the practice of good. In this it differs from other ethical discourses, Christian or philosophical, of the Greco-Roman world. By studying this particularity of the rabbinical ethics, the present article tries to answer the following question: If knowledge of the “truth” does not lead to the practice of the “good”, how does rabbinic discourse articulates a motivation of the application of the law on an individual level?","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70083165","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":"Polémique antichrétienne et théologie dans le Sefer ha-‘iqqarim de Yosef Albo (xve siècle)","authors":"P. Bobichon","doi":"10.4000/YOD.673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/YOD.673","url":null,"abstract":"Written in 1425 by one of the participants in the Disputation of Tortosa (1413-1414), the Sefer ha-Iqqarim is one of the most important philosophical-theological writings of the 14th and 15th centuries. It was composed during the period comprised between the persecutions of 1391 and the expulsion of 1492 and characterised by the multitude of conversions. Like Sa‘adya Gaon, Maimonides and Hasdai Crescas – the latter being his teacher – Joseph Albo examines the “Principles” of Judaism, their relation with reason and their religious specificity. This reflection is constructed by means of references to the Jewish tradition, but also, in one particular context, by opposing everything that calls this tradition into question. Thus, references to Christianity, in various forms, are omnipresent in the Sefer ha-Iqqarim. A veritable “Defence and Illustration” of Judaism, the Sefer ha-Iqqarim cannot be reduced to its polemical dimension, yet this dimension should be taken into account for an exact appreciation of its purpose, reception and scope.","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"1 1","pages":"115-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70083355","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":"La fracture : amour et réparation. Pensée kabbalistique et poésie hispanique","authors":"Elisa Martín Ortega","doi":"10.4000/YOD.675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/YOD.675","url":null,"abstract":"The Kabbalah tries to explain the existence of suffering and evil by introducing new details in the myth of Creation. Isaac Luria’s school created the concepts of /Tsimtsum/ (contraction), /Shevirat kelim /(breaking of vessels) or /Tikun olam /(World restoration) in order to focus on the imperfection of Creation and to highlight human responsibility towards the world, as the man is considered God’s allied in the restoration. These ideas have drawn the attention of a group of contemporary Hispanic poets, who have put them in the context of their own creative experience. They could help the contemporary world develop a reflection on human responsibility towards the threatened nature.","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"19 1","pages":"189-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70083678","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":"Le Musée de la culture juive de Bratislava et les implications postcommunistes de son développement institutionnel","authors":"Katalin Deme","doi":"10.4000/YOD.682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/YOD.682","url":null,"abstract":"The central idea and the purported role which organize the work of a given Jewish museum clearly refer to the issues occupying its surrounding society with the greatest intensity or, alternatively, to the theme that could have the best chance of being digested by that society. Such issues may include the thematization of anti-Semitism or of the Holocaust, or may have a cultural mediating role. To what extent can we find a reflection of the Central-European Jewry’s multi-layered process of self-definition in the work of the Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava after 1989? Furthermore, to what extent does this process of self-definition follow the historical image conceived in the consciousness of the surrounding societies? What are the social conditions, the historical precursors and the future perspectives of these self-reflections? These are the questions to which I purport to find an answer in my article.","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"1 1","pages":"345-383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70083702","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":"Philosophie et tradition dans le commentaire de Sforno sur Qohelet","authors":"É. Dahan","doi":"10.4000/YOD.674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/YOD.674","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to investigate how Rabbi Ovadia Sforno, the great Italian Biblical commentator of the Renaissance, deals with the Book of Qohelet. Indeed, Sforno is known not only as a rabbi, but also as a man interested in philosophy and sciences. My argument is that, if Sforno’s commentary on the Book of Qohelet is mainly philosophical, Jewish tradition is nevertheless widely present. In order to demonstrate this, I analyze the place of the two approaches–the philosophical-Aristotelian and the Jewish traditional–in this exegetical work.","PeriodicalId":53276,"journal":{"name":"Yod","volume":"1 1","pages":"145-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70083411","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}