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Papers by Seth Wolitz
The Worlds of S. An-sky, 2006
<p>This chapter evaluates the Polish Jewish folk motif and figure of Simkhe Plakhte. This t... more <p>This chapter evaluates the Polish Jewish folk motif and figure of Simkhe Plakhte. This topic deserves closer attention because of its wide popularity and extensive literary reworking among Polish Jews during the twentieth century. The putative folk tale of Simkhe Plakhte projects a character drawn from the <italic>shtetl</italic> underclass who not only subverts the established social order of the traditional Jewish world, but also earns respect from the non-Jewish ruling class of the old Polish Commonwealth. While the tale contains maskilic elements of anti-hasidic satire, it is also a conscious expression of Jewish fantasy and wish-fulfilment, reflecting a specific Polish Jewish milieu in the nineteenth century. These elements go far towards explaining the wide interest this material has sustained.</p>
Amador who were careful readers of some of my chapter, and Miguel Santos-Neves who was took care ... more Amador who were careful readers of some of my chapter, and Miguel Santos-Neves who was took care of bureaucratic demands in my displacement. Wayne Scheiss and the University of Texas School of Law deserve thanks for an assistantship that provided me with the time to write much of this. I wish to thank my parents as well for all of their assistance along the way. But most importantly thanks are owed to my wife, Rebecca, and our children, Elizabeth, Lucy, and Ezra for putting up with me as I wrote this. All mistakes and errors are my own. v
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 20, 2007
IN HIS WRITINGS Abraham Goldfadn often mused about creating a theatre ex nihilo. 1 He says explic... more IN HIS WRITINGS Abraham Goldfadn often mused about creating a theatre ex nihilo. 1 He says explicitly that he would have liked to write and perform dramas equal to the world’s great plays, but throughout his short autobiographical writings he stresses that when a secular theatre starts at zero, it can’t go to 100 immediately. And so he was forced to write musical dramas when his heart was in poetic tragedies....
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16
A Captive of the Dawn, 2019
Jean-Claude Grumberg, 2014
The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer, 2002
East European Jewish Affairs, 2018
View related articles View Crossmark data Yet such questions do come from a very stimulating and ... more View related articles View Crossmark data Yet such questions do come from a very stimulating and serious study. With its wide range of primary sources, Jewish Volunteers provides a welcome reevaluation and nuancing of the history and memory of Jewish involvement in the International Brigades. It will be a point of reference beyond specialists of Jews in the Spanish Civil War or of Jewish communists, to scholars working on the Yiddish press or those interested in expanding the scope of Holocaust memory.
Shofar An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
This text is no hagiographic study. To the contrary, it seeks to be revisionist if not provocativ... more This text is no hagiographic study. To the contrary, it seeks to be revisionist if not provocative but is entirely derivative, as the author admits (p. 223), from the labors of Benjamin Harshav in his Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Stanford, 2004). This is unfortunate, for Harshav's study must be used with caution (see Shofar, Vol. 23, No. 4 [Summer 2005]: 121–130). The volume, Marc Chagall, appears in the series Jewish Encounters, "devoted to the promotion of Jewish literature, culture and ideas," a collaboration of Nextbook and Schocken, edited by Jonathan Rosen. The series perspective seeks to refresh key Jewish figures and have them serve as mirrors for the fourth and fifth generation American Jews questing for a contemporary Jewish identity. The angle of vision hints of a neo-conservative cast, determined to underline Jewish continuity against discontinuities, and create a strong bond to Israel and Hebraic culture. This text on Chagall is the...
The Slavic and East European Journal, 1996
... Web of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Jerry Schwarzbard of the Library of the Jewish... more ... Web of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Jerry Schwarzbard of the Library of the Jewish Theologi-cal Seminary of America; Mordechai Nadav of the ... was the recipient of the taxes collected by the kahals of the Mogilev province, and that its bet din was the appel-late court ...
Page 1. EDITED BY SETH L.WOLITZ Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Seth L. Wolitz holds the LD, Marie, and E... more Page 1. EDITED BY SETH L.WOLITZ Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Seth L. Wolitz holds the LD, Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature. ...
Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 2006
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 1992
Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 1969
The Worlds of S. An-sky, 2006
<p>This chapter evaluates the Polish Jewish folk motif and figure of Simkhe Plakhte. This t... more <p>This chapter evaluates the Polish Jewish folk motif and figure of Simkhe Plakhte. This topic deserves closer attention because of its wide popularity and extensive literary reworking among Polish Jews during the twentieth century. The putative folk tale of Simkhe Plakhte projects a character drawn from the <italic>shtetl</italic> underclass who not only subverts the established social order of the traditional Jewish world, but also earns respect from the non-Jewish ruling class of the old Polish Commonwealth. While the tale contains maskilic elements of anti-hasidic satire, it is also a conscious expression of Jewish fantasy and wish-fulfilment, reflecting a specific Polish Jewish milieu in the nineteenth century. These elements go far towards explaining the wide interest this material has sustained.</p>
Amador who were careful readers of some of my chapter, and Miguel Santos-Neves who was took care ... more Amador who were careful readers of some of my chapter, and Miguel Santos-Neves who was took care of bureaucratic demands in my displacement. Wayne Scheiss and the University of Texas School of Law deserve thanks for an assistantship that provided me with the time to write much of this. I wish to thank my parents as well for all of their assistance along the way. But most importantly thanks are owed to my wife, Rebecca, and our children, Elizabeth, Lucy, and Ezra for putting up with me as I wrote this. All mistakes and errors are my own. v
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 20, 2007
IN HIS WRITINGS Abraham Goldfadn often mused about creating a theatre ex nihilo. 1 He says explic... more IN HIS WRITINGS Abraham Goldfadn often mused about creating a theatre ex nihilo. 1 He says explicitly that he would have liked to write and perform dramas equal to the world’s great plays, but throughout his short autobiographical writings he stresses that when a secular theatre starts at zero, it can’t go to 100 immediately. And so he was forced to write musical dramas when his heart was in poetic tragedies....
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16
A Captive of the Dawn, 2019
Jean-Claude Grumberg, 2014
The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer, 2002
East European Jewish Affairs, 2018
View related articles View Crossmark data Yet such questions do come from a very stimulating and ... more View related articles View Crossmark data Yet such questions do come from a very stimulating and serious study. With its wide range of primary sources, Jewish Volunteers provides a welcome reevaluation and nuancing of the history and memory of Jewish involvement in the International Brigades. It will be a point of reference beyond specialists of Jews in the Spanish Civil War or of Jewish communists, to scholars working on the Yiddish press or those interested in expanding the scope of Holocaust memory.
Shofar An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
This text is no hagiographic study. To the contrary, it seeks to be revisionist if not provocativ... more This text is no hagiographic study. To the contrary, it seeks to be revisionist if not provocative but is entirely derivative, as the author admits (p. 223), from the labors of Benjamin Harshav in his Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Stanford, 2004). This is unfortunate, for Harshav's study must be used with caution (see Shofar, Vol. 23, No. 4 [Summer 2005]: 121–130). The volume, Marc Chagall, appears in the series Jewish Encounters, "devoted to the promotion of Jewish literature, culture and ideas," a collaboration of Nextbook and Schocken, edited by Jonathan Rosen. The series perspective seeks to refresh key Jewish figures and have them serve as mirrors for the fourth and fifth generation American Jews questing for a contemporary Jewish identity. The angle of vision hints of a neo-conservative cast, determined to underline Jewish continuity against discontinuities, and create a strong bond to Israel and Hebraic culture. This text on Chagall is the...
The Slavic and East European Journal, 1996
... Web of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Jerry Schwarzbard of the Library of the Jewish... more ... Web of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Jerry Schwarzbard of the Library of the Jewish Theologi-cal Seminary of America; Mordechai Nadav of the ... was the recipient of the taxes collected by the kahals of the Mogilev province, and that its bet din was the appel-late court ...
Page 1. EDITED BY SETH L.WOLITZ Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Seth L. Wolitz holds the LD, Marie, and E... more Page 1. EDITED BY SETH L.WOLITZ Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Seth L. Wolitz holds the LD, Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature. ...
Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 2006
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 1992
Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 1969