Wohnwort: the linguistic homelands of Elazar Benyoëtz
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- dc.contributor.author Pisano, Libera
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-12T07:29:49Z
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- dc.date.issued 2022
- dc.description.abstract One aspect of Elazar Benyoëtz’s poetry is his bold attempt to treat the catastrophe of Auschwitz through a linguistic prism. In this essay, I would like to shed light on his way of inhabiting the German language as an outsider by considering the ethical implications of his bifurcated linguistic soul. To do so, I will first analyze the general representation of language that appears in Benyoëtz’s work. In particular, I will point to the dynamics of language and how its movement shapes a land and a language beyond all constraints of ownership, while providing an alternative way of inhabiting it. I will then examine possible interpretations of Benyoëtz’s bifurcated linguistic soul along with its ethical implications, including not only a coming to terms with the end of German-Jewish symbiosis, but also a utopian way of repairing it.
- dc.description.sponsorship This article was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement Nº 101027857.
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- dc.identifier.citation Pisano L. Wohnwort: the linguistic homelands of Elazar Benyoëtz. Judaica: Neue digitale Folge. 2022;3:1-20. DOI: 10.36950/jndf.2022.15
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/jndf.2022.15
- dc.identifier.issn 2673-4273
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59071
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Bern Open Publishing
- dc.relation.ispartof Judaica: Neue digitale Folge. 2022;3:1-20
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- dc.subject.other Poesia
- dc.subject.other Llengües modernes
- dc.subject.other Jueus -- Alemanya -- Història -- 1945-
- dc.title Wohnwort: the linguistic homelands of Elazar Benyoëtz
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