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- Title
Referenz, Inter-Referenz, Interferenz: Jiddisch bei Babel.
- Authors
Sicher, Efraim
- Abstract
Abstract: This article analyzes the Russian prose of Isaac Babel (1894-1940) as an example of Yiddish linguistic interference that introduces variant readings into the subtext. Such interference was characteristic of the Russian Jewish cultural polysystem and was particularly versatile in the Soviet period in referring to repressed or erased Jewish identity. The article discusses the implications of Yiddish linguistic interference for cultural identity and concludes that studying the dynamics of intercultural referentiality can teach us much about intertextuality in Soviet Jewish writing.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; BABEL, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940; 20TH century Russian literature; RUSSIAN literature; LITERARY criticism; JEWISH authors; YIDDISH language; INTERFERENCE (Linguistics); INTERTEXTUALITY; JEWS; BILINGUAL authors; SUBTEXT (Drama, novel, etc.); JEWISH identity
- Publication
Aschkenas: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden, 2014, Vol 24, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
1016-4987
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1515/asch-2014-0014