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Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points in Jewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political, geographical, technological, and cultural shifts. Contemporary textual transmission in Jewish culture has been influenced by secularization, the return to Hebrew and the emergence of modern Yiddish, and the new centers of Jewish life in the United States and in Israel, as well as by advancements in print technology and the invention of the Internet. Volume XXXI of Studies in Contemporary Jewry deals with various aspects of textual transmission in Jewish culture in the last two centuries. Essays in this volume examine old and new kinds of media and their meanings; new modes of transmission in fields such as Jewish music; and the struggle to continue transmitting texts under difficult political circumstances. Two essays analyze textual transmission in the works of giants of modern Jewish literature: S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Yiddish. Other essays discuss paratexts in the East, print cultures in the West, and the organization of knowledge in libraries and encyclopedias.

Author Biography:

Avriel Bar-Levav is associate professor in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. He is also head of the Center for the Study of the Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims and co-editor of Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture. His fields of study include history of the Jewish book, Jewish attitudes toward death, ego documents, and Jewish ethical literature. Uzi Rebhun is professor and head of the Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-diaspora relations. His fields of study include Jewish demography, Jewish sociology, and Israel-Diaspora relations.
Release date Australia
April 9th, 2020
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Avriel Bar-Levav
  • Edited by Uzi Rebhun
Pages
360
Dimensions
160x238x31
ISBN-13
9780197516485
Product ID
32757793

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