From Xenophobia to Golden Age: "Jewish Paradise” Proverb as a Linguistic Reclamation
- Title
- From Xenophobia to Golden Age: "Jewish Paradise” Proverb as a Linguistic Reclamation
- Author
- Piotr Bronislaw Konieczny
- Keywords
- Linguistic reclamation; Polish history; Jewish history; Polish-Jewish history; Antisemitism
- Issue Date
- 2021-06
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Citation
- Contemporary Jewry(2021), page. 1-21
- 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.
- URI
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12397-021-09380-4https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/166578
- ISSN
- 0147-1694
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12397-021-09380-4
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- COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION[E](언론정보대학) > ETC
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