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Modern Jewish Literatures : Intersections and Boundaries.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish Culture and Contexts SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204360
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modern Jewish LiteraturesDDC classification:
  • 809/.88924
LOC classification:
  • PN842 -- .M63 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Study -- Chapter 1. Literary Culture and Jewish Space around 1800: The Berlin Salons Revisited -- Chapter 2. Joseph Salvador's Jerusalem Lost and Jerusalem Regained -- Chapter 3. The Merchant at the Threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the Poetics of Apostasy -- Chapter 4. Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer's Social Identity -- Chapter 5. I. L. Peretz's ''Between Two Mountains'': Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Literary Modernity -- Chapter 6. Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke Stories -- Chapter 7. Brenner: Between Hebrew and Yiddish -- Chapter 8. Eisig Silberschlag and the Persistence of the Erotic in American Hebrew Poetry -- Chapter 9. The Art of Sex in Yiddish Poems: Celia Dropkin and Her Contemporaries -- Chapter 10. Ethnopoetics in the Works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe -- Chapter 11. Eternal Jews and Dead Dogs: The Diasporic Other in Natan Alterman's The Seventh Column -- Chapter 12. Inserted Notes: David Boder's DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust -- Chapter 13. Unpacking My Father's Bookstore -- Chapter 14. The Art of Assimilation: Ironies, Ambiguities, Aesthetics -- Chapter 15. Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Study -- Chapter 1. Literary Culture and Jewish Space around 1800: The Berlin Salons Revisited -- Chapter 2. Joseph Salvador's Jerusalem Lost and Jerusalem Regained -- Chapter 3. The Merchant at the Threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the Poetics of Apostasy -- Chapter 4. Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer's Social Identity -- Chapter 5. I. L. Peretz's ''Between Two Mountains'': Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Literary Modernity -- Chapter 6. Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke Stories -- Chapter 7. Brenner: Between Hebrew and Yiddish -- Chapter 8. Eisig Silberschlag and the Persistence of the Erotic in American Hebrew Poetry -- Chapter 9. The Art of Sex in Yiddish Poems: Celia Dropkin and Her Contemporaries -- Chapter 10. Ethnopoetics in the Works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe -- Chapter 11. Eternal Jews and Dead Dogs: The Diasporic Other in Natan Alterman's The Seventh Column -- Chapter 12. Inserted Notes: David Boder's DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust -- Chapter 13. Unpacking My Father's Bookstore -- Chapter 14. The Art of Assimilation: Ironies, Ambiguities, Aesthetics -- Chapter 15. Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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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