Author: Budick, Emily Miller Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the wor...
Author: Wirth-Nesher, Hana Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with Eng...
Author: Abrahams, Israel Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786. Thus the period covered ex...
Author: N/A Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With 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 ...
Author: Garrett, Leah V. Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Journeys Beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated re...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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...
Author: Abrahams, Israel Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The chapters of this volume were almost all spoken addresses. The author has not now changed their character as such, for it seemed to him that to convert them into formal essays would be to rob them ...
Author: Abrahams,Israel Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Israel Abrahams (1858-1925) was a leading British Jewish scholar. In 1902 Abrahams came to the United States to teach at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and ...
Author: Newton, Adam Zachary Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesùtheintersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. Contributors examine t...
