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    badly damaged at top of spine, book is otherwise very good and appears unused. GELBER, MARK H., 1951- / SJÖBERG, SAMI, ed. . Jewish aspects in avant-garde: between rebellion and revelation - DAMAGED COPY. Edited by Mark H. Gelber and Sami Sjöberg. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017, iv, 277pp., . Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts, 5. - This volume will deal with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings linked to elements from Judaism or Jewish culture, thought, or history. - CONTENTS: Acknowledgements / Sami Sjöberg and Mark H. Gelber -- Introduction the avant-garde and Jewish traditions / Alfred Bodenheimer -- Dada judaism: the avant-garde in First World War Zurich / Radu Stern -- Jews and the avant-garde : the case of Romania / Sami Sjöberg -- Towards an ahistorical Jewishness : the idea of Jewish essence in the German-Jewish avant-garde community building and cultural conflicts / Andreas Kramer -- Carl Einstein, Jewishness, and the communities of the European avant-garde / Laëtitia Tordjman -- Challenging the literary community : the Warsaw yiddish avant-garde and khalyastre / Maria Silina -- Modern Jewish sculptors and the cultural policy of the USSR in the 1920s-1930s : self-representation and anti-semitism / Zoë Roth -- Frontière humaine : race, nation, and the shape of representation in Claude Cahun / Alana Sobelman -- Arnold Schoenberg's Jewish veil : the workings of anti-semitic rhetoric in die Glückliche Hand, Op. 18 (1913) : messianism, syncretism, and vanguard philosophy / Malgorzata Stolarska-Fronia -- Saints and tsadikim : the religious syncretism of Jewish expressionism / Tom Paulus -- Between ecstasy and lament : revelationism and messianism in Epstein and Godard / Raphael Koenig -- The mad book: der Nister as unreliable author in from my estate (1929) / Olivier Salazar-Ferrer -- The role of Judaism in Benjamin Fondane's existential philosophy Jews in the avant-garde : a historical perspective / Steven E. Aschheim -- The avant-garde and the Jews -- Notes on contributors. ISBN 9783110336924.