"Contending with the Modern West: Japanese and Yiddish Satires in the Era of High Imperialism”

dc.date.accessioned 2022-09-22T19:31:13Z
dc.date.available 2022-09-22T19:31:13Z
dc.date.issued 2022-08-30
dc.description This is a flyer for a webinar held by the Center for Japanese Studies in Fall 2022.
dc.description.abstract In the later nineteenth century, many Japanese and East European Jews, respectively, perceived their polities to be under threat from Western governments, even as some also found hope in humanitarian idealism. To understand this mixed atmosphere, we will examine two satirical works: Japanese democratic activist Nakae Chomin’s A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government (1887) and classic Yiddish novelist Sholem Abramovitch’s The Mare (1873). Each story features an idealist figure—in some measure, the author’s younger self--who is assailed by a realist and a cynic, respectively, for his naivete. Reflecting contrastive trajectories, the Japanese novel inclines to comedy, while the Yiddish one inclines to tragedy.
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10125/102394
dc.language eng
dc.title "Contending with the Modern West: Japanese and Yiddish Satires in the Era of High Imperialism”
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