Papers by Alexandra Polyan
Judaic-Slavic journal, 2023
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Judaic-Slavic journal, Dec 31, 2022
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Tiroš, 2020
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Sefer; Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences eBooks, 2020
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Judaic-Slavic journal, 2021
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Transit und Transformation. Osteuropäisch-jüdische Migranten in Berlin 1918-1939 (Transit and Transformation - East European Jewish Migrants in Berlin 1918-1939). Conference volume, 2010
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Judaic-Slavic Journal
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This paper deals with the question of transformations experienced by a custom named “hakhnasat ka... more This paper deals with the question of transformations experienced by a custom named “hakhnasat kala” in modern Russian Jewish community. The commandment to fulfill “hakhnasat kala” was first mentioned in Talmudic literature as a precept to glorify the groom and the bride, but later, in 17th–18th centuries in Ashkenaz, it obtained a new interpretation: the community should provide a poor bride with dowry, so that she could get married – and thus needy girls were prevented from becoming socially marginalized or baptized. In modern Russian Jewish community (and, as it turned out later, among Russian-speaking ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel) the term “hakhnasat kala” is applied to a completely new practice – crowdfunding for wedding ceremony of a couple who have already chosen each other as partners or have been living in a civil marriage and who have returned or converted to Judaism. Unlike the traditional situation, in which the wedding costs were covered by donations of guests, in this...
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Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University, 2017
The report deals with idioms featuring the constituent tooth / teeth. The figurative meaning of t... more The report deals with idioms featuring the constituent tooth / teeth. The figurative meaning of those idioms may involve cognition and knowledge (Russian ни в зуб ногой), emotions (English gnash one’s teeth, grind one’s teeth, Russian иметь зуб на кого-л., Serbian and Croatian imati zub na nekoga ‘to be angry with someone because of something they have done’), and speech (English to lie through one’s teeth, Irish labhairt gan fiacail a chuir ann ‘crude speech’ [lit.: speech with no teeth to look for]). The analysis of idiom modifications, metaphors and their possible blends is based on Slavic (Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Germanic (English, German, Yiddish, Afrikaans), and Celtic (Irish) languages.
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Tirosh. Jewish, Slavic & Oriental Studies
The paper focuses on two Holocaust writings by Peretz Markish: the play An Eye for an Eye (1942) ... more The paper focuses on two Holocaust writings by Peretz Markish: the play An Eye for an Eye (1942) and the magnum opus The March of Generations. The play was later reworked into the first parts of the novel that was written in 1947 and published posthumously in 1966. Two incomplete copies of the play are available at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts. From the original Yiddish text, only a few episodes survived, each of them in 2–3 versions. The Russian translation by M.Shambadal is opening episodes and the last page. The article attempts to reconstruct the play’s plot, to analyze its motif structure against the backdrop of Markish’s other Holocaust-related plays, and to trace the transformations it underwent when incorporated into the first part of the novel. Both works also provide us with some historical insights telling what the JAFC members knew about the Holocaust as early as in 1942, and suggesting the hand of the Soviet censorship.
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