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(Un)familiar Jewishness in the Work of Jiří Weil
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SYSNO ASEP 0562813 Druh ASEP J - Článek v odborném periodiku Zařazení RIV J - Článek v odborném periodiku Poddruh J Článek ve SCOPUS Název (Un)familiar Jewishness in the Work of Jiří Weil Tvůrce(i) Brunová, Marie (UCL-M) RID, ORCID Zdroj.dok. Slovo a smysl. - : Univerzita Karlova v Praze - ISSN 1214-7915
Roč. 19, č. 39 (2022), s. 198-209Poč.str. 12 s. Jazyk dok. eng - angličtina Země vyd. CZ - Česká republika Klíč. slova Czech Jewish Literature ; Jiří Weil ; Jewish identity ; Moskva – hranice (Moscow-Border) ; Harfeník (The Harpist) Vědní obor RIV AJ - Písemnictví, masmédia, audiovize Obor OECD Specific literatures Výzkumná infrastruktura CLB II - 90136 - Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i. Způsob publikování Open access Institucionální podpora UCL-M - RVO:68378068 EID SCOPUS 85139730231 DOI 10.14712/23366680.2022.1.14 Anotace Jiří Weil (1900–1959), the Czech writer of Jewish origin, is known primarily for his works of fiction dealing with the experience of the Shoah, both in the form of short stories and his celebrated novels Život s hvězdou (Life with a Star, 1949) and Na střeše je Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn is on the Roof, 1960), as well as the text collage Žalozpěv za 77 297 obětí (Lamentation for 77 297 Victims, 1958). However, the fact that Weil presented the theme of Jewishness also from a different perspective is often overlooked — for example in the novel Harfeník (The Harpist, 1958) and in the unpublished texts ‘Perrotina, mašina chlebozlodějská’ (Perrotine, the Bread-Stealing Machine) and ‘Tiskařská romance’ (A Printer’s Romance), in which he linked the theme of Jewishness to that of the beginnings of the labour movement in the Czech lands in the 19th century. Although Weil’s post-war literary output is characterised by his focus on themes of Jewishness and the Shoah, we also find Jewish figures represented in his pre-war novel writing. Last but not least, it is necessary also to recall his texts of a non-fiction character, in which he dealt with Jewish themes in the course of his employment at the State Jewish Museum. The focal point of this contribution therefore resides in the presentation of Weil’s lesser-known texts, dealing with the theme of Jewishness other than through the prism of the Shoah, and in his uncovering of a complex of Jewish identities in his pre-war novel Moskva – hranice (Moscow-Border, 1937). Pracoviště Ústav pro českou literaturu Kontakt Pavla Hartmanová, hartmanova@ucl.cas.cz ; Veronika Zemanová, zemanova@ucl.cas.cz, asep@ucl.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 828 135 Rok sběru 2023 Elektronická adresa https://wordandsense.ff.cuni.cz/en/2022-1-14/
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