Facing Down the Watershed: The Drama Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) by I.L. Peretz as a Carnival Mystery Play
Facing Down the Watershed: The Drama Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) by I.L. Peretz as a Carnival Mystery Play
Author(s): Karolina KoprowskaContributor(s): Jessica Taylor-Kucia (Translator)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Jewish studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Yitskhok Leybush Peretz; Isaac Leib Peretz; Mikhail Bakhtin; carnival; Jewish modernism
Summary/Abstract: The author analyses Isaac Leib Peretz’s play Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) through the lens of the ambivalences of the carnival, which give rise to various transgressions of socio-political and cultural, as well as metaphys
Journal: Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 15-28
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
