Writing Jewish Culture

Note on Transliteration and Names Introduction / Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran Part 1: Reinventing the "Jews" in Ethnographic Writing 1. The Voice of a Native Informer: Salomon Maimon Describes Life in Polish Lithuania / Liliane Weissberg 2. Legends of Authenticity: Das Buch von den polnischen Juden (1916) by S. J. Agnon and Ahron Eliasberg / Sylvia Jaworski 3. The Cold Order and the Eros of Storytelling: Joseph Roth's "Exotic Jews" / Andreas Kilcher 4. Yiddish Ethnographic Poetics and Moyshe Kulbak's "Vilne" / Jordan Finkin Part 2: Seeing, Hearing, and Reading Jews 5. Listening in the Dark: The Yiddish Folklorists' Claim of a Russian Genealogy / Gabriella Safran 6. Ethnoliterary Modernity: Jewish Ethnography and Literature in the Russian Empire and Poland (1890-1930) / Annette Werberger 7. Imagining the Wandering Jew in Modernity: Exegesis and Ethnography in Feuchtwanger's Jud Suss / Galit Hasan-Rokem 8. Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnography of War in Kriegsgefangene (1916) and Das Ostjudische Antlitz (1920) / Eva Edelmann-Ohler 9. Avant-Garde Authenticity: Ethnography and Identity in Moi Ver's Photobook Ein Ghetto im Osten / Samuel Spinner Part 3: Spaces of Jewish Ethnography between Diaspora and Nation 10. Zionism's Ethnographic Knowledge: Leo Motzkin's and Heinrich York-Steiner's Narratives of Palestine (1898-1904) / Alexander Alon 11. Eastern Europe in Argentina: Yiddish Travelogues and the Exploration of Jewish Diaspora / Tamar Lewinsky Part 4: Politics and the Addressee of Ethnography 12. From Custom Book to Folk Culture: Minhag and the Roots of Jewish Ethnography / Nathaniel Deutsch 13. In Search of the Exotic: "Jewish Houses" and Synagogues in Russian Travel Notes / Alla Sokolova 14. Ballads of Strangers: Constructing "Ethnographic Moments" in Jewish Folklore / Dani Schrire Appendices Note to Readers A. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (Handbook for Fieldworkers) / Naftoli Vaynig and Khayim Khayes, Translated by Jordan Finkin B. Research Your Shtetl / H. Aleksandrov, Translated by Jordan Finkin C. "A Strange Experience" / A. Almi, Translated by Gabriella Safran List of Contributors Index