(Un)familiar Jewishness in the Work of Jiří Weil

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Result on the web

<a href="https://wordandsense.ff.cuni.cz/en/2022-1-14/" target="_blank" >https://wordandsense.ff.cuni.cz/en/2022-1-14/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23366680.2022.1.14" target="_blank" >10.14712/23366680.2022.1.14</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

(Un)familiar Jewishness in the Work of Jiří Weil

Original language description

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from a different perspective is often overlooked — for example in the novel Harfeník (The Harpist, 1958) and in the unpublished texts ‘Perrotina, mašina chlebozlodějská’ (Perrotine, the Bread-Stealing Machine) and ‘Tiskařská romance’ (A Printer’s Romance), in which he linked the theme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).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovo a smysl

ISSN

1214-7915

e-ISSN

2336-6680

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

39

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

198-209

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85139730231