Samuel J Spinner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1076971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel J Spinner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel J |
| FAMILY NAME | Spinner |
| SIGNATURE | SPINNER S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jewish Primitivism
Jewish Primitivism
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or “primitive” tribesmen, using ethnographic and folkloristic tropes as a way of negotiating their position as insider-outsiders in Europe. Samuel Spinner argues that in literature, graphic art, and photography, Jewish modernists developed a distinct primitivist aesthetic that, by locating the savage present in Europe, ch…
Joseph Roth at the Horizons of Hope
Joseph Roth at the Horizons of Hope Samuel J. Spinner (bio) This essay is a reimagining of a short paper I wrote in 2001 when I was an undergraduate student of Rochelle Tobias. While I am now fortunate enough to be her colleague some things have not changed: I am still learning from Rochelle and I am still working on Joseph Roth. This brief reflection is not homework, but a tribute to Rochelle in gratitude for her role in my education and my care…
Lasker-Schüler's Languages
Lasker-Schüler's Languages:Hebrew and Hieroglyphics Samuel J. Spinner (bio) I will begin with a quotation from Else Lasker-Schüler in its original language: Ani ben-hamelech mi-Teben sholeach lecha ethamichtav hazeh asher nifkad me-itivenichtav bichtav hakinorim hana'ale sheliri ha-ivrit Ir-Zahav: vehineni meshiv lecha et etzem hagulgoletasher beyamim avaru kavashta lema'anibamilchama: adom yifga becha hachesed ka'asher natanli linshom od: yavo-n…
Plausible Primitives
This article analyzes Kafka's works as an exemplar of Jewish primitivism. The eastern European Jew had, from the turn of the century, become increasingly aestheticized and anthropologized, a confluence that bespeaks the concurrent and intertwined development of anthropology and of a modernist fascination with those who were identified as the authentic bearers of culture. Eastern European Jews became subjects for the exploration of ‘authentic’ cul…
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Plausible Primitives
This article analyzes Kafka's works as an exemplar of Jewish primitivism. The eastern European Jew had, from the turn of the century, become increasingly aestheticized and anthropologized, a confluence that bespeaks the concurrent and intertwined development of anthropology and of a modernist fascination with those who were identified as the authentic bearers of culture. Eastern European Jews became subjects for the exploration of ‘authentic’ cul…
Lasker-Schüler's Languages
Lasker-Schüler's Languages:Hebrew and Hieroglyphics Samuel J. Spinner (bio) I will begin with a quotation from Else Lasker-Schüler in its original language: Ani ben-hamelech mi-Teben sholeach lecha ethamichtav hazeh asher nifkad me-itivenichtav bichtav hakinorim hana'ale sheliri ha-ivrit Ir-Zahav: vehineni meshiv lecha et etzem hagulgoletasher beyamim avaru kavashta lema'anibamilchama: adom yifga becha hachesed ka'asher natanli linshom od: yavo-n…
Jewish Primitivism
Jewish Primitivism
Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or “primitive” tribesmen, using ethnographic and folkloristic tropes as a way of negotiating their position as insider-outsiders in Europe. Samuel Spinner argues that in literature, graphic art, and photography, Jewish modernists developed a distinct primitivist aesthetic that, by locating the savage present in Europe, ch…
Joseph Roth at the Horizons of Hope
Joseph Roth at the Horizons of Hope Samuel J. Spinner (bio) This essay is a reimagining of a short paper I wrote in 2001 when I was an undergraduate student of Rochelle Tobias. While I am now fortunate enough to be her colleague some things have not changed: I am still learning from Rochelle and I am still working on Joseph Roth. This brief reflection is not homework, but a tribute to Rochelle in gratitude for her role in my education and my care…
Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)