Gesichterordnungen. Zu Arnold Zweigs und Hermann Strucks ‚Das ostjüdische Antlitz‘ Beitrag Mona Körte Comparatio, Volume 4 (2013), Issue 2, Page 289 - 312 [...] Das ostjüdische Antlitz (1920) constitutes a hybrid work of art, an idiosyncratic mixture of essay, ekphrasis and praise of the ‘Eastern Jew’. So far the text has been considered as a typical example of folklore, a counter-myth to the assimilated ‘Western Jew’. By contrast, this re-reading focuses on the epistemological function of the face, situated between east and west, and oscillat [...]