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Singer's Typewriter and Mine
UNP - Nebraska Paperback 2012; US$ 24.95A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly and deftly as he manages the multiple perspectives of a dual national, religious, and ethnic identity. In Singer?s Typewriter and Mine , a follow-up... more...
From Continuity to Contiguity
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...
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe
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... more...
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 42.95Zionism 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. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic world that has justified... more...
Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century
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...
Jewish Translation History
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... more...
Beautiful Death
Princeton University Press 2002; US$ 65.00When 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... more...
The Modern Jewish Canon
Free Press 2001; US$ 28.00What 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... more...
Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume XII
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 119.99This 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...
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