The Jew is Looking at the Peasant… Rural Spaces and Peasant Heroes: Some Examples From Yiddish Literature Cover Image

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The Jew is Looking at the Peasant… Rural Spaces and Peasant Heroes: Some Examples From Yiddish Literature

Author(s): Alina Molisak
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Comparative Study of Literature, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Jews; peasants; countryside; social and cultural relations;

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of several texts from Jewish literature. The main purpose is to see how the characters of villagers were construed and how the rural space functioned in texts created by Yiddish writers. Rural space is the sphere of professional and sociocultural contacts within which heroes are placed and by which their fate is influenced. Jewish–peasant relations are the most interesting aspects of the narratives.

  • Issue Year: 22/2019
  • Issue No: 43
  • Page Range: 31-48
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish