TY - BOOK AU - Almas,H.Esra AU - Biemann,Asher D. AU - Birnbaum,Pierre AU - Bischoff,Doerte AU - Cohen,Richard I. AU - Fischer,Nina AU - Grossman,Jeffrey A. AU - Hoffman,Stefani AU - Lang Hilgartner,Judith K. AU - Mueller,Agnes C. AU - Müller,Judith AU - Parkinson,Anna M. AU - Range,Regina AU - Rotman,Diego AU - Wobick-Segev,Sarah E. TI - Spiritual Homelands: The Cultural Experience of Exile, Place and Displacement among Jews and Others T2 - Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , SN - 9783110637366 AV - DS134 .S65 2019 U1 - 296.09 PY - 2019///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Jewish diaspora KW - Jews KW - Civilization KW - Identity KW - Social conditions KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish KW - bisacsh KW - Exile studies KW - Jewish studies KW - cultural studies KW - literary studies N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part 1: Exile and Erasures --; The End of Exile? The Metz Contest of 1787 Revisited --; Remembering/Imagining Palestine from Afar: The (Lost) Homeland in Contemporary Palestinian Diaspora Literature --; Part 2: Writing the Homeland --; Worlds, Words, and Womanhood: Gina Kaus and the Formation of a Spiritual Homeland --; Performing Homeland in Post-Vernacular Times: Dzigan and Shumacher’s Yiddish Theater after the Holocaust --; Part 3: Language in Exile --; The World as Exile and the Word as Homeland in the Writing of Boris Khazanov --; Uncovering Accent and Belonging in Juan Gelman’s Dibaxu --; Part 4: Multiple Exiles, Contingent Homelands --; France as Wahlheimat for Two German Jews: Heinrich Heine and Walter Benjamin --; The Girl from the Golden Horn: Kurban Said / Lev Nussinbaum’s Vision of Home and Exile in Interbellum Berlin --; “In der Fremde zu hause”: Contingent Cosmopolitanism and Elective Exile in the Writing of Hans Keilson --; Part 5: Of Other Spaces: Travel and Trauma --; Israel as a Place of Trauma and Desire in Contemporary German Jewish Literature --; Paper Existences: Passports and Literary Imagination --; Neither Heimat nor Exile: The Perception of Paris as a Historical Blind Spot in Three Israeli Novels --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of boundary crossings and of desired places and alternate identities, into a world of adopted kin and invented allegiances UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637564 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110637564 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110637564/original ER -