TY - JOUR
T1 - Dealing with a Literary Estate
T2 - Methodological Issues Encountered in Organizing Josef Mundi's Estate as a Case Study
AU - Peri, Moran
AU - Caspi, Zahava
N1 - Funding Information:
1. Mundi Josef was referred to as Mundi on the mistaken assumption that this was his surname. As he never attempted to correct this mistake, which was common practice among both his friends and adversaries, he is referred to here as Mundi as well. 2. The play was staged in the US under the name "From A to B." 3. The research and publication were funded by grants from the Israel Science Foundation and Mifal Hapayis. 4. 0XQGL¶V HQWLUH HVWDWH LV LQ WKH DUFKLYHV Rli LIite+raHturNe VKHULP 5HVHDUFK ,QVWLWXWH IRU -HZLVK & Culture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, now open to the public.
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PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - In the humanities literature concerning research questions, little attention is paid to methodological issues. This paper seeks to help fill that gap by presenting a case study: the problems that arose when working on the estate of Josef Mundi, which we received in 2016. We had to make numerous decisions regarding, among other things, chronological, chronotropic, textual, and biographical issues. The plays had to be dated and arranged in chronological order, the parent text among the various versions of the same play had to be determined, and Mundi’s artistic development in terms of movements, genres, and themes had to be traced. Some of the problems we encountered, and the solutions we found, are illustrated here by three plays from different periods: “The Razor” from 1977, “The Messiah: The Rise and Fall of Shabbetai Zvi” (1982), and “Peep Show,” which was never published or staged.
AB - In the humanities literature concerning research questions, little attention is paid to methodological issues. This paper seeks to help fill that gap by presenting a case study: the problems that arose when working on the estate of Josef Mundi, which we received in 2016. We had to make numerous decisions regarding, among other things, chronological, chronotropic, textual, and biographical issues. The plays had to be dated and arranged in chronological order, the parent text among the various versions of the same play had to be determined, and Mundi’s artistic development in terms of movements, genres, and themes had to be traced. Some of the problems we encountered, and the solutions we found, are illustrated here by three plays from different periods: “The Razor” from 1977, “The Messiah: The Rise and Fall of Shabbetai Zvi” (1982), and “Peep Show,” which was never published or staged.
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U2 - 10.1353/hbr.2022.0009
DO - 10.1353/hbr.2022.0009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85147670735
SN - 0146-4094
VL - 63
SP - 177
EP - 194
JO - Hebrew Studies
JF - Hebrew Studies
ER -