Pisano, Libera2024-02-122024-02-122022Pisano L. Wohnwort: the linguistic homelands of Elazar Benyoëtz. Judaica: Neue digitale Folge. 2022;3:1-20. DOI: 10.36950/jndf.2022.152673-4273http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59071One 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.application/pdfengThis article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).PoesiaLlengües modernesJueus -- Alemanya -- Història -- 1945-info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.36950/jndf.2022.15info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess