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From Xenophobia to Golden Age: "Jewish Paradise" Proverb as a Linguistic Reclamation.
- Source :
- Contemporary Jewry; Jun2021, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p517-537, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The phrase "Jewish paradise" (from Latin paradisus Judeorum) originated in an early seventeenth-century xenophobic and antisemitic poem. Over the centuries, the original poem has been forgotten and the phrase, originally intended to be a satirical exaggeration of the Jewish position, has become increasingly used as a neutral or even favorable expression referencing the Golden Age of Jewish Culture in early modern Poland-Lithuania. This paper traces the history of this transition and argues that it represents an example of the linguistic reclamation: turning an antisemitic phrase into a philosemitic one, used from Poland to Jewish communities worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PROVERBS
PARADISE
JEWISH communities
XENOPHOBIA
POLISH history
JEWISH history
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01471694
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary Jewry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153819351
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-021-09380-4