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Jewish Primitivism (Hardcover)
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Jewish Primitivism (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and
artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or
"primitive" tribesmen. Primitivism-the European appreciation of and
fascination with so-called "primitive," non-Western peoples who
were also subjugated and denigrated-was a powerful artistic
critique of the modern world and was adopted by Jewish writers and
artists to explore the urgent questions surrounding their own
identity and status in Europe as insiders and outsiders. Jewish
primitivism found expression in a variety of forms in Yiddish,
Hebrew, and German literature, photography, and graphic art,
including in the work of figures such as Franz Kafka, Y.L. Peretz,
S. An-sky, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Else Lasker-Schuler, and Moi Ver. In
Jewish Primitivism, Samuel J. Spinner argues that these and other
Jewish modernists developed a distinct primitivist aesthetic that,
by locating the savage present within Europe, challenged the idea
of the threatening savage other from outside Europe on which much
primitivism relied: in Jewish primitivism, the savage is already
there. This book offers a new assessment of modern Jewish art and
literature and shows how Jewish primitivism troubles the boundary
between observer and observed, cultured and "primitive," colonizer
and colonized.
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