Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction Sami Sjöberg Mark H. Gelber 1
The Avant-Garde and Jewish Traditions
Dada Judaisms: The Avant-Garde in First World War Zurich Alfred Bodenheimer 23
Jews and the Avant-Garde: The Case of Romania Radu Stern 35
Towards an Ahistorical Jewishness: The Idea of Jewish Essence in the German-Jewish Avant-Garde Sami Sjöberg 53
Community Building and Cultural Conflicts
Carl Einstein, Jewishness, and the Communities of the European Avant-Garde Andreas Kramer 71
Challenging the Literary Community: The Warsaw Yiddish Avant-Garde and Khalyastre Laëtitia Tordjman 85
Modern Jewish Sculptors and the Cultural Policy of the USSR in the 1920s-1930s Maria Silin 101
Self-Representation and Anti-Semitism
Frontlère humaine: Race, Nation, and the Shape of Representation in Claude Cahun Zoë Roth 119
Arnold Schoenberg's Jewish Veil: The Workings of Anti-Semitic Rhetoric in Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18 (1913) Alana Sobelman 141
Messianism, Syncretism, and Vanguard Philosophy
Saints and Tsadikim - The Religious Syncretism of Jewish Expressionism Malgorzata Stolarska-Fronia 161
Between Ecstasy and Lament: Revelationism and Messianism in Epstein and Godard Tom Paulus 193
The Mad Book: Der Nister as Unreliable Author in From my Estate (1929) Raphael Koenig 207
The Role of Judaism in Benjamin Fondane's Existential Philosophy Olivier Salazar-Ferrer 227
Jews in the Avant-Garde: A Historical Perspective
The Avant-Garde and the Jews Steven E. Aschheim 253
Notes on Contributors 275
