From Xenophobia to Golden Age: "Jewish Paradise” Proverb as a Linguistic Reclamation
- Authors
- Konieczny, Piotr
- Issue Date
- Jun-2021
- Publisher
- Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry
- Keywords
- Antisemitism; Jewish history; Linguistic reclamation; Polish history; Polish-Jewish history
- Citation
- Contemporary Jewry, v.41, no.2, pp 517 - 537
- Pages
- 21
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Contemporary Jewry
- Volume
- 41
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 517
- End Page
- 537
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/113874
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12397-021-09380-4
- ISSN
- 0147-1694
- 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. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
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