Bridge across broken time : Chinese and Jewish cultural memory / Vera Schwarcz.
Bridge across broken time : Chinese and Jewish cultural memory / Vera Schwarcz.
Bridge across broken time : Chinese and Jewish cultural memory / Vera Schwarcz.
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Publisher
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N305.8924/18
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 232 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Because of Memory, Because of Hope, Because of Distress -- 1. How to Make Time Real: From Intellectual History to Embodied Memory -- 2. The Bridge of Words: Memory and Metaphor in Chinese and Jewish Tradition -- 3. Burning Snow: Naming the Broken Fragments of Time -- 4. Notes in the Wa...
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Publisher
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1998.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
In this book, Vera Schwarcz explores the meanings of cultural memory within the two longest surviving civilizations on earth. Schwarcz finds a bridge between the vastly different Chinese and Jewish traditions in the fierce commitment to historical memory they share. Focusing on the transmission of cultural memory in these two cultures, the author e...
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Bridge across broken time : Chinese and Jewish cultural memory / Vera Schwarcz.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-223) and index.
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N305.8924/18
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74VvqJwv0rLX
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0300066147 (cl. : alk. paper)
9780300066142 (cl. : alk. paper)
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305.8924
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991006168679702626
