{"product_id":"9780814350812-salvage-poetics","title":"Salvage Poetics","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePost-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies\u003cbr\u003eExplores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the post-Holocaust decades.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the post-Holocaust decades. These texts, Jelen argues, served to help clarify the role of East European Jewish identity in the construction of a post-Holocaust American one. In her analysis of a variety of \"hybrid\" texts—those that exist on the border between ethnography and art—Jelen traces the gradual shift from verbal to visual Jewish literacy among Jewish Americans after the Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eS. Ansky's ethnographic expedition (1912–1914) and Martin Buber's adaptation and compilation of Hasidic tales (1906–1935) are presented as a means of contextualizing the role of an ethnographic consciousness in modern Jewish experience and the way in which literary adaptations and mediations create opportunities for the creation of folk ethnographic hybrid texts. \u003ci\u003eSalvage Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e looks at classical texts of the American Jewish experience in the second half of the twentieth century, such as Maurice Samuel's \u003ci\u003eThe World of Sholem Aleichem\u003c\/i\u003e (1944), Abraham Joshua Heschel's \u003ci\u003eThe Earth Is the Lord's\u003c\/i\u003e (1950), Elizabeth Herzog and Mark Zborowski's \u003ci\u003eLife Is with People \u003c\/i\u003e(1952), Lucy Dawidowicz's \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Tradition \u003c\/i\u003e(1967), and Roman Vishniac's \u003ci\u003eA Vanished World\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), alongside other texts that consider the symbiotic relationship between pre-Holocaust aesthetic artifacts and their postwar reframings and reconsiderations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalvage Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e is particularly attentive to how literary scholars deploy the notion of \"ethnography\" in their readings of literature in languages and\/or cultures that are considered \"dead\" or \"dying\" and how their definition of an \"ethnographic\" literary text speaks to and enhance the scientific discipline of ethnography. This book makes a fresh contribution to the fields of American Jewish cultural and literary studies and art history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41028880203873,"sku":"9780814350812","price":38.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35592189_46b3fdfd-2873-455e-adc4-4f42db00b668.jpg?v=1754517505","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780814350812-salvage-poetics","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}