JEWISH LITERATURE & WORLD LITERATURE. UNLEARNING (TRANS)NATIONALISM.

The present paper proposes an investigation of the concept of Jewish literature in its relation to world literature studies within an analysis of the first generation of Jewish writers who became part of the Romanian literary life following the 1923 emancipation. Born approximatively between 1890 and 1910, those authors do not form a homogenous group, representing different political orientations and relationships with their Jewish identity. One of the premises of the study is that, even if Jewish literature appears as a suitable corpus of text for world literature studies, considering its intrinsically transnational nature, it did not receive significant attention that would reflect this supposition, as researchers from both fields pointed out. Thus, studying the relationship between the two fields can inform one another and expose certain shared conflicts with the (trans)nationalist paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]