Bronislava Volková (Indiana University, USA) Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature: Wandering vs. Inward Turn in the Aesthetic Ideas at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
The paper published here is a part of a larger book on Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought (Twentieth-Century Central Europe and Movement to America), that will be in print with Academic Studies Press in 2021. The article consists of three parts. The first part covers the history of concepts of exile, such as ostracism, estrangement, marginalization or post-memory. The second part focuses on exile as “Expulsion and Wandering”, i.e. the most basic meaning as well as the most typical phenomenon of Jewish history in Eastern Europe, i.e. a movement westwards in several waves starting on the break of 19th and 20th century. The third text focuses on a very different form of exile appearing in the same period, namely the “Aesthetic Revolt and an Inward Turn” in artistic thinking of the time, a type of internal exile.