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The Representation of the Relationship between Center and Periphery in the Contemporary Novel
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on different forms of representation of social hybridity in contemporary novels through various cultural and linguistic lenses. It explores the various subcategories of their interdependent relationships, including power and domination between hegemony and marginality. The book revolves around five axes: namely, writing strategies and reterritorialization; marginality and intermediary spaces; revisited urban spaces; when periphery becomes center; and the modality of confrontation and construction of identity. It focuses on the identification and classification of spaces in order to understand their function in relation to the thematic strategy of the novel. Its main objective is identifying the textual representation of the challenge of center and periphery, as well as these concepts’ role and significance in diegesis. Thus, new light is shed on the subject and on the contemporary novel as a whole.
Jewish Translation History
A classified bibliographic resource for tracing the history of Jewish translation activity from the Middle Ages to the present day, providing the researcher with over a thousand entries devoted solely to the Jewish role in the east-to-west transmission of Greek and Arab learning and science into Latin or Hebrew. Other major sections extend the coverage to modern times, taking special note of the absorption of European literature into the Jewish cultural orbit via Hebrew, Yiddish, or Judezmo translations, for instance, or the translation and reception of Jewish literature written in Jewish languages into other languages such as Arabic, English, French, German, or Russian. This polyglot bibliography, the first of its kind, contains over 2,600 entries, is enhanced by a vast number of additional bibliographic notes leading to reviews and related resources, and is accompanied by both an author and a subject index.
Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons
Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis examines the ways in which the work of Israeli political cartoonists broadens conversations about contemporary challenges in the country. Matt Reingold shows how 21 cartoonists across 10 different Israeli newspapers produced cartoons in response to the country’s social and political crises between December 2018–June 2021, a period where the country was mired in four national elections. Each chapter is structured around an issue that emerged during this period, with examples drawn from multiple cartoonists. This allows for fertile cross-cartoonist discussion and analysis, offering an opportunity to understand the different ways that an issue affects national discourse and what commentaries have been offered about it. By focusing on this difficult period in contemporary Israeli society, the volume highlights the ways that artists have responded to these national challenges and how they have fashioned creative reimaginings of their country.
Multimodal Experiences Across Cultures, Spaces and Identities
This book explores the interplay between various semiotic modes in multimodal texts and the ways in which they are employed to express cultural translation, seeking to expand prevailing views of translation and adaptation in light of everchanging social realities. Drawing on work from multimodal discourse studies, translation studies and adaptation studies, Kohn and Weissbrod shed a light on the increasing prominence of the visual in multimodal texts in the act of translation in a broad sense, and specifically, in conveying cultural translation, broadly understood as the processes and experiences which communities and individuals undergo in the face of social and cultural upheavals which req...
From the Conquest of the Desert to Sustainable Development
The Negev desert occupies most of the territory of Israel. It has a strategic importance for the existence of the center of the country and at the same time is considered as a natural wild periphery. Since the 1920s, there was a tendency to conquer and flourish the desert, while since the 1980s, the ecological values gained importance. This manuscript reveals the relationship between man and his environment, employing texts analysis according to the ecocriticism approach. The study shows how as part of globalization processes, the status of collectivism in Israeli society was declined whereas the ability of social groups to influence the spatial identity construction has increased. Dr. Ilanit Ben-Dor Derimian, lecturer specialized in Israel and Jewish culture and history studies, member of the Research Center of Foreign Cultures, Languages and Literatures (CECILLE), University of Lille, France.
A Crimson Line to the Bright Horizon
Fereshte Teyfouri's writings focussing on Sufi thought and mystical concepts are presented with the original Persian texts and an English translation to introduce her poignant view of existence to a wider audience. The poetic miniatures muse on existentialist concepts, stemming from the perspective of her life in Iran and later Germany - and a visceral sense of not belonging - but with the dilemmas of alienation and displacement counterbalanced by the sentiments being expressed using Sufi terms, but sometimes from the standpoint of inanimate objects: tar, blotting paper, the cleansing nature of an eraser. Fereshte Teyfouri, lecturer in Persian at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, Persian author and editor, translator for the German courts. Natalie H. Shokoohy (translator) architectural historian.
A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
The first encylopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world This is the first encyclopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, the book features more than 150 authoritative and accessible articles by an international team of leading experts in history, politics, literature, anthropology, and philosophy. Organized thematically and chronologically, this indispensable reference provides critical facts and balanced context for greater historical understanding and a more informed dialogue between Jews and Muslims. Part I covers the medieval p...
Guide de la fraternité
Répertorie dans les régions françaises, à Paris, en Belgique et en Suisse, des lieux de dialogue inter-religieux. Précise pour chaque groupe ou association, ses coordonnées, ses objectifs et ses actions, les religions représentées, etc.
Zur Autorität der Halacha im Reformjudentum
Die Halacha, das jüdisches Recht, gilt als Rückgrat des Judentums. Ihre Geltung beruht auf freiwilliger Anerkennung. Die Frage, warum der Halacha gefolgt werden soll, beantworten traditionelles und liberales Judentum unterschiedlich. Vorliegend werden Konzepte einer liberal-jüdischen Halacha von einer Rabbinerin und fünf Rabbinern vorgestellt, die bedeutsam für das heutige liberal-jüdische Denken sind. Halachische Autorität beruht nicht mehr auf Offenbarung, sondern auf professionell-rabbinischen und gemeindlichen Diskursen, deren Ergebnisse den Status von Empfehlungen haben.
Rilkes Gedicht "Der Tod Moses"
Rilkes Gedicht Der Tod Moses, das thematisch auf einer talmudischen Legende vom Sterben des Religionsstifters beruht und in der Fassung Johann Gottfried Herders dem Dichter bekannt geworden war, entstand in einem ersten Ansatz 1914 in Paris und wurde erst, nach Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs, 1915 in München vollendet. In dieser Zeit hat auch Albrecht Schaeffer seine episches Gedicht Moses Tod geschrieben, angeregt durch dieselbe literarische Quelle, die ihm Magda von Hattingberg mit Rilkes Wissen und Anteilnahme vermittelt hatte (Ein Mysterium, im Anhang vollständig abgedruckt). Ohne Kenntnis der Legendentradition ist Rilkes Gedicht schwer zu verstehen. Diese vielschichtige Überlieferung und der Vergleich mit anderen Bearbeitungen des Stoffes durch J. A. Eisenmenger (1700), Herder, George Eliot (1875), Will Vesper (1909), Albrecht Schaeffer (1914/15) und Franz Werfel (1923) soll zur Erhellung von Rilkes verrätseltem Sprachgebilde beitragen, das dem Stil der werdenden Elegien (1912-1922) zuzurechnen ist.
