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AbstractThis paper examines the image of the Russian Jewry in the memoir of Max Lilienthal, a Jewish-German author who explored the Russian Pale of settlement on official mandate in 1839. In so doing, he built a representational space of a persecuted minority in the tsarist empire, a minority already diversified and fragmented, under complex and polarizing pressures to reform (within traditional frames). The many challenges of Jewish modernization under Nicholas I, as understood by Lilienthal, become even more dramatic when compared with a contemporary text of travels in the Russian empire, the famous « La Russie en 1839 » by Astolphe de Custine, a text that gave an iconic representation of the police state in its dealings with minority religious and ethnic groups.
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AbstractThis essay interprets and analyzes in detail the Yiddish versions of great American poems: Poe's "The Raven," Longfellow's "Hiawatha," Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." An attempt has been made to relate all cross-linguistic data to cultural and social ideologies like Poetic Professionalism, Americanization, Socialism, Preservation of Ethnic Identity and Personal/Communal Expressiveness. In other words, the main intent of the essay has been to "explicate" a text by reference to its cultural context, whether American or Jewish.
Keywords: invention, nativization, Jewish liberation, melting pot, humanity, invention, nativisation, libération juive, « melting pot », humanité
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Given that at present, more than half of the marriages contracted by Jew in France are mixed, the question “what does it mean to be Jewish?” is of particular importance. When individuals define themselves as Jewish but do not practice, and share their lives with a non-Jew, what do they transmit? My study shows that both partners, Jewish and non Jewish, want to transmit a Judaism that they often call a “cultural Judaism”. They seek to reinvent spaces, symbolic and real, that render their plural identity coherent and allow them to transmit a secularized Judaism to their children. ftis wish to claim a Jewish identity is often linked to the Shoah.
Keywords: Judaïsme, couples mixtes, transmission, mémoire, identité, Judaism, mixed couples, transmission, memory, identity