Gruenbaum / Oehme Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80270-133-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten

Reihe: Jewish Engagements

A collection featuring essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contribution to the popular medieval and early modern genre of romance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gruenbaum, Caroline

Oehme, Annegret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

"Introduction," by Annegret Oehme and Caroline Gruenbaum Part I: Writing Beyond Genre Eitan P. Fishbane: “The Zohar as Medieval Jewish Romance” Dana Fishkin: “Letters of Loathing: Immanuel of Rome and Romance Epistolary” Sara Offenberg: “Illuminated Knights and Tales of Romance in the Rothschild Miscellany” Part II: Is Jewish Romance Jewish? Tovi Bibring: “he Queen Nudatio, a Romanesque (?) Topos in Israel Caslari’s Roman d’Esther” Shamma Boyarin: “At the Court of the Demon King: The Story of the Jerusalemite and Chivalric Romance” Rella Kushelevsky: “King Artus as a Jewish Romance: Horizons of Expectation and Generic Configurations” Part III: Global Narratives Ruth von Bernuth: “A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed? Friendship, Love, and Loyalty in the Yiddish Seven Sages of Rome” Astrid Lembke: “Stealing back One’s Husband: The Yiddish Mayse mi-Danzek in the Context of Early Modern Cross-Dressing Narratives” Revital Refael-Vivante: “Romance Elements in Meshal haQadmoni by Isaac Ibn Sahula. A New Reading” "Afterword: Jewish Romance in Search of Identity," by Eli Yassif Select Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Gruenbaum is an editorial associate at the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She holds a PhD in Judaic Studies from New York University, where she was also affiliated with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center. Annegret Oehme is an Associate Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. She received her PhD in 2016 from Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill through the Carolina–Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.