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Daniel and the Sonnenscheins : biblical cycles in István Szabó's film "Sunshine"

  • As the exilic experience, initiated in 587 B.C.E., continued over millennia, no one has been able to settle the question of what it means to be a diaspora Jew. Are those who actively participate in non-Jewish life still in a position to claim the heritage of Israel? And what about Jews who actively seek assimilation and renounce their roots altogether: are they still Jews in spite of themselves? Authors, from Joseph Roth to Sholom Aleichem to Chaim Potok, have tried to deal with this issue in light of different diaspora circumstances. One of the most recent perspectives on Jewish identity comes to us through "Sunshine", a powerful film by the Hungarian director Istvan Szabó (1999). Szabó, who wrote the screenplay with Israel Horowitz, tells the story of several generations in one Hungarian Jewish family: the Sonnenscheins. Living at the turn of the twentieth century, the patriarch of the Sonnenschein clan is Emmanuel, a successful distiller who seems to have found a balance between the two exilic extremes: neither complete assimilation, nor a retreat from gentile society.

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Author:Vladimir Tumanov
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-377765
URL:http://avalon.unomaha.edu/jrf/Vol8No2/TumanovSunshine.htm
ISSN:1092-1311
Parent Title (English):The journal of religion and film : JR&F
Publisher:University of Nebraska, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Place of publication:Omaha
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2004
Year of first Publication:2004
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2015/07/08
GND Keyword:Szabó, István; Diaspora / Juden
Volume:8
Issue:2
Page Number:7
HeBIS-PPN:369742605
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Sammlung Musik, Theater, Film / Literatur zum Film
BDSL-Klassifikation:03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.15.00 Literatur und Medien
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht