Modern Jewish Literatures : : Intersections and Boundaries /

Modern Jewish Literatures : : Intersections and Boundaries / / ed. by Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner.

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Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language-though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Borovaya, Olga,
Caplan, Marc,
Glaser, Amelia,
Hellerstein, Kathryn,
Jelen, Sheila E.,
Kramer, Michael P.,
Lerner, L. Scott,
Mintz, Alan,
Nevo, Gideon,
Norich, Anita,
Rosen, Alan,
Ross, Nicham,
Roth, Laurence,
Shapira, Anita,
Weissberg, Liliane,
HerausgeberIn:
Jelen, Sheila E.,
Kramer, Michael P.,
Lerner, L. Scott,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 9 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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