Yiddish for Spies, or the Secret History of Jewish Literature, Lemberg 1814
This article has two goals: first, it aims to solve a mystery in Yiddish studies by identifying the previously unknown author of one of the earliest Eastern European modern literary texts in Yiddish, and reconstructing the historical context in which he wrote the text. Second, it will show how this...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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De Gruyter
2016
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Naharaim
Jahr: 2016, Band: 10, Heft: 2, Seiten: 195-213 |
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Habsburg Empire
Galicia
Haskalah
Napoleonic Wars
Yiddish Literature
Johann Eduard Sack
Joseph Perl
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article has two goals: first, it aims to solve a mystery in Yiddish studies by identifying the previously unknown author of one of the earliest Eastern European modern literary texts in Yiddish, and reconstructing the historical context in which he wrote the text. Second, it will show how this archival-biographical discovery sheds new light on the history of Eastern European Jews during the Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815) as well as on the rise of Haskalah literature. Finally, as the title of this article suggests, I will argue that there was a direct link between narration and denunciation, between the Austrian imperial interest in collecting insider information about the Jews and the turn to writing literature in Jewish languages. |
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| ISSN: | 1862-9156 |
| Enthält: | In: Naharaim
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/naha-2016-0015 |