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The Modern Jewish Canonby Ruth R. Wisse
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 18.99What makes a great Jewish book? What makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse, one of the leading scholars in the field of Jewish literature, sets out to answer these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon. Wisse takes us on an exhilarating journey through language and culture, penetrating the complexities of Jewish life as they are expressed in the greatest Jewish novels of the twentieth century, from Isaac Babel to Isaac Bashevis Singer, from Elie Wiesel to Cynthia Ozick. The modern Jewish canon Wisse proposes comprises those books that convey an experience of Jewish actuality, those in which "the authors or characters know and let the reader know that they are Jews," for better or worse. Wisse is not content merely to evaluate... more...
Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Centuryby Sorrel Kerbel
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 59.95Designed as the first work to identify contemporary Jewish authors and carefully study the Jewish themes in their work, both an essential reference resource and a springboard for further reading. more...
Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume XIIby Ezra Mendelsohn
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 120.00This volume of this series deals with Jewish identity in literature. Particular attention is paid to changing national and popular myths, folk memory, and the historical consciousness of Jews in modern times. more...
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literatureby Laurel Plapp
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 133.00Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. more...
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europeby Vivian Liska; Thomas Nolden
Indiana University Press 2007; US$ 25.45With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post--World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish writers and writing that has marked a revitalization of... more...
Beautiful Deathby Susan L. Einbinder
Princeton University Press 2002; US$ 59.95When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated.... more...
From Continuity to Contiguityby Dan Miron
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 65.00From Continuity to Contiguity breaks away from previous attempts attempts to define a common denominator that unifies the various modern Jewish literatures by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. more...
Jewish Translation Historyby Robert Singerman; Gideon Toury
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 195.00A classified bibliographic resource for tracing the history of Jewish translation activity from the Middle Ages to the present day, providing the researcher with over a thousand entries devoted solely to the Jewish role in the east-to-west transmission of Greek and Arab learning and science into Latin or Hebrew. Other major sections extend the coverage to modern times, taking special note of the absorption of European literature into the Jewish cultural orbit via Hebrew, Yiddish, or Judezmo translations, for instance, or the translation and reception of Jewish literature written in Jewish languages into other languages such as Arabic, English, French, German, or Russian. This polyglot bibliography, the first of its kind, contains over 2,600... more...
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