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almafu_9958352319002883
Format:
1 online resource :
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9 illus.
ISBN:
9780812204360
Series Statement:
Jewish Culture and Contexts
Content:
Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? The authors of the fifteen essays in this volume find the answer in a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Study --
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Chapter 1. Literary Culture and Jewish Space around 1800: The Berlin Salons Revisited --
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Chapter 2. Joseph Salvador’s Jerusalem Lost and Jerusalem Regained --
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Chapter 3. The Merchant at the Threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the Poetics of Apostasy --
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Chapter 4. Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer’s Social Identity --
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Chapter 5. I. L. Peretz’s ‘‘Between Two Mountains’’: Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Literary Modernity --
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Chapter 6. Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem’s Kasrilevke Stories --
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Chapter 7. Brenner: Between Hebrew and Yiddish --
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Chapter 8. Eisig Silberschlag and the Persistence of the Erotic in American Hebrew Poetry --
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Chapter 9. The Art of Sex in Yiddish Poems: Celia Dropkin and Her Contemporaries --
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Chapter 10. Ethnopoetics in the Works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe --
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Chapter 11. Eternal Jews and Dead Dogs: The Diasporic Other in Natan Alterman’s The Seventh Column --
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Chapter 12. Inserted Notes: David Boder’s DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust --
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Chapter 13. Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore --
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Chapter 14. The Art of Assimilation: Ironies, Ambiguities, Aesthetics --
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Chapter 15. Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History --
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List of Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812204360
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204360
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204360
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