Literary Interference between German and Jewish-Hebrew Children's Literature during the Enlightenment: The Case of Campe
Literary Interference between German and Jewish-Hebrew Children's Literature during the Enlightenment: The Case of Campe
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启蒙时期德国儿童文学与犹太希伯来儿童文学之间的文学干扰:以坎普为例
作者:
Z. Shavit
The decisive role played by German culture in the development of modern Jewish thought and culture is by now a commonplace-almost a banal one, at that. Standard research and numerous recent studies have focused extensively on the various phases of contact, interaction, and exchange between the Jewish-Hebrew and the German cultures, especially from the eighteenth century onward. (To mention just a few examples, see Breuer 1986; Eisenstein-Barzilay 1955; Eliav 1960; Katz 1935, 1973; Kober 1947, 1954; Levin 1975; Liberles 1986a, 1986b; Ozer 1947; Rapel 1986; Reinharz and Schatzberg 1985; Simon 1953; Sorkin 1987; Stern-Taeubler 1940, 1950-51). However, the question of the actual agents and channels whereby these relations were made possible and materialized has remained largely unaddressed, with the exception of a few recent studies (see, e.g., Bartal 1990; Feiner 1990; Sorkin 1990). This ostensible lack of interest in the concrete agents and channels involved in these cultural interrelations cannot be explained, as might be assumed, in terms of the marginal roles played by these factors in the process of cultural interference. Research proves in fact quite the opposite: Lack of interest in these agents stems, rather, from their marginal positions in the overall cultural consciousness. These agents, who functioned at a prac-