Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures: Transfer, Mediality and Situativity (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 94) [Hardcover] Terpitz, Olaf and Windsperger, Marianne

In the past years, reflections on Jewish literatures and theoretical and methodological approaches discussed in Comparative Literature have converged. Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures. Transfer, Mediality and Situativity brings together close readings and contextualizations of Jewish literatures with theories discussed in Comparative and World Literature Studies. The contributions are arranged in five chapters capturing central processes, actors and dynamics in the making of literatures, namely Literary Agents, Literary Figures, Writing Voids, Making of Literatures and Perceiving and Creating Languages. The volume seeks to illuminate the interrelations between literary systems, and to highlight Jewish literatures as a prism for encounters on the levels of text, discourse and culture, and their transformative force.

Olaf Terpitz is Associate Professor for Jewish Literatures. He has published widely on European-Jewish literatures, including the German edition of Sh. Ansky’s Yiddish diary Der Khurbn in Polen, Galizien und der Bukowina. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg (2019).

Marianne Windsperger has studied Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna and is working on her dissertation on afterlives of Yiddish in contemporary literature. She is a research assistant at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI).