Between German and Hebrew: The Counterlanguages of Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft and Ludwig Strauss

This Book Traces The German-hebrew Language Contact-zones In Which Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft And Ludwig Strauss Created In Germany And In Jerusalem In The 1920s And 30s. Set In The Contexts Of Cultural Marginality, Modernist Literature, And Linguistic Dislocation, Barouch Exposes The Writings Of Scholem, Kraft And Strauss As Unique Forms Of Counterlanguage: Hebraist Lamentation, Germanist Steadfastness And Polyglot Dialogue, Respectively. Acknowledgements ; Table Of Contents ; Note On Transliteration ; Abbreviations Of Selected Primary Sources ; Introduction ; I Gershom Scholem: Language Between Lamentation And Retaliation ; 1 The Lamentation Of Language Itself. Scholem, Benjamin And Buber: Mind, Revelation And Erlebnis In Language Border Dialectic And Tradition ; 2 From Lamentation To Retaliation ; Germany: The Rise Of Zionism And The Fall Of Hebrew ; Jerusalem: Hebrew Between Victory And Catastrophe ; 3 Agnon: Hebrew At The Crossroads. 4 Conclusion Ii Werner Kraft: Singing A Lost World ; 1 Linguistic Dystopia And Restitution In Germany ; The Odd Couple: Rudolf Borchardt And Karl Kraus And The First World War ; Kraft And The German-jewish Predicament ; Student And Librarian Between The First World War And 1933. 2 Exile In Jerusalem Writing Into The Void ; Imaginary Companions And A German Ark In Exile ; 3 A German Ark In Jerusalem: Language, Criticism And Translation ; Karl Kraus: Positive Language Critique ; Rudolf Borchardt: Language, Decay And Restoration ; 4 Conclusion. Iii Ludwig Strauss: Polyglot Dialogue And Parody 1 Hebraism And Dialogue In Germany ; Political Writings: Language And Mediation ; The Mediator: Identity, Literature And Language ; Poetological Treatises: Poetry As Dialogue ; 2 Polyglossia And Parody In Palestine. Lina Barouch. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 181-193) And Index.