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Politics of Canonicity
Lines of Resistance in Modernist Hebrew Poetry
Inbunden, 2002
926 kr
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The Politics of Canonicity sheds new light on the dynamics of canon formation in modern Hebrew literature. It explores the ways in which literary culture—as site and as tool—participates in the production of national identity. The aesthetic paradigms, political ideologies, and social interests that …
Prophet Reads Scripture
Allusion in Isaiah 40-66
Inbunden, 1998
964 kr
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This book examines the use of older biblical texts in Isaiah 40-66, notably the writings attributed to Deutero-Isaiah. Its discussion of allusions, influence, and intertextuality generates significant questions for both biblicists and literary critics: Why do authors allude? How does the presence …
Web of Life
Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature
Inbunden, 2000
1598 kr
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Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical …
Web of Life
Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature
Häftad, 2000
387 kr
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Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical …
James Joyce's Judaic Other
Inbunden, 1999
1707 kr
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How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyce's writing? What light has Joyce himself already cast on the complex question of their relationship? This book poses these questions in terms of models of the other drawn from psychoanalytic and cultural …
Chosen Body
The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society
Av Meira Weiss
Inbunden, 2002
1358 kr
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This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body. To construct a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect, the author draws upon some twenty years of ethnographic research in …
Identity Theft
The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner
Inbunden, 2003
1053 kr
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Identity Theft focuses on the life and writing of Avraam Uri Kovner. As one of the fiery Jewish nihilists of his generation, variously a critic, author, and bank embezzler, Kovner embodies the problem of identity as a series of translations across cultural boundaries. Kovner, who initiated modern …
Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings
Av Rela Mazali
Inbunden, 2002
2099 kr
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This book writes itself off the guide map of familiar literary forms and melts down conceptual barriers, offering a new kind of reading and thinking experience as it tells the life and travel stories of fascinating women and examines women's physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial …
Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings
Av Rela Mazali
Häftad, 2002
510 kr
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This book writes itself off the guide map of familiar literary forms and melts down conceptual barriers, offering a new kind of reading and thinking experience as it tells the life and travel stories of fascinating women and examines women's physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial …
Sinner and the Amnesiac
The Rabbinic Invention of Elisha Ben Abuya and Eleazar Ben Arach
Inbunden, 2000
1133 kr
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Elisha ben Abuya is one of the most intriguing figures in early rabbinic literature, consistently capturing the Jewish imagination as the arch-heretic, apostate, and great sinner. Because of the vague nature of the rabbinic sources relating to him, later generations, particularly in modern times, …
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears
Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish
Inbunden, 2000
1302 kr
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In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic …
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears
Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish
Häftad, 2000
314 kr
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In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic …
James Joyce's Judaic Other
Häftad, 1999
395 kr
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How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyce's writing? What light has Joyce himself already cast on the complex question of their relationship? This book poses these questions in terms of models of the other drawn from psychoanalytic and cultural …
Language in Time of Revolution
Häftad, 1999
398 kr
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This book on culture and consciousness in history concerns the worldwide transformations of Jewish culture and society and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language following the waves of pogroms in Russia in 1881, when large numbers of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe redefined their identity …
Meaning of Yiddish
Häftad, 1999
340 kr
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With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a "living" language.Reviews"Harshav's book is a first-class study of Yiddish as both …
First Converts
Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity
Inbunden, 2002
405 kr
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It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. This book provides a new reading of sources from which this truism springs, focusing on two texts from the turn of the first century, Josephus's Antiquities and Luke's …
Independence Park
The Lives of Gay Men in Israel
Av Amir Sumaka’i Fink, Jacob Press
Inbunden, 2000
1825 kr
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Independence Park, Tel Aviv, is the best-known meeting place for gay men in Israel; Independence Park, Jerusalem, is perhaps the second-best-known; and the hope for independence is the dominant theme of this wide-ranging collection of personal narratives told in the voices of twelve gay men …
Menstrual Purity
Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender
Av Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Inbunden, 2000
1484 kr
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Perhaps more than any other aspect of rabbinic literature, the laws about and discussions of menstruation have polarized current discussions of gender relations in Jewish culture. Is the designated impurity of menstruation sexist? Or does ritual absence from sex during menstruation encourage a …
Rewriting the Jew
Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire
Inbunden, 2002
795 kr
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In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation …
Independence Park
The Lives of Gay Men in Israel
Av Amir Sumaka’i Fink, Jacob Press
Häftad, 2000
447 kr
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Independence Park, Tel Aviv, is the best-known meeting place for gay men in Israel; Independence Park, Jerusalem, is perhaps the second-best-known; and the hope for independence is the dominant theme of this wide-ranging collection of personal narratives told in the voices of twelve gay men …
Politics and the Limits of Law
Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought
Inbunden, 2002
859 kr
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This book explores the emergence of the fundamental political concepts of medieval Jewish thought, arguing that alongside the well known theocratic elements of the Bible there exists a vital tradition that conceives of politics as a necessary and legitimate domain of worldly activity that preceded …
God's Beauty Parlor
And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible
Inbunden, 2002
1711 kr
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God's Beauty Parlor opens the Bible to the contested body of critical commentary on sex and sexuality known as queer theory and to masculinity studies. Through a series of dazzling rereadings staged not only in God's beauty parlor, but also in God's boudoir, locker room, and war room, the author …
God's Beauty Parlor
And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible
Häftad, 2002
415 kr
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God's Beauty Parlor opens the Bible to the contested body of critical commentary on sex and sexuality known as queer theory and to masculinity studies. Through a series of dazzling rereadings staged not only in God's beauty parlor, but also in God's boudoir, locker room, and war room, the author …
Menstrual Purity
Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender
Av Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Häftad, 2002
345 kr
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Perhaps more than any other aspect of rabbinic literature, the laws about and discussions of menstruation have polarized current discussions of gender relations in Jewish culture. Is the designated impurity of menstruation sexist? Or does ritual absence from sex during menstruation encourage a …
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture
Inbunden, 2003
1224 kr
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and …
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture
Häftad, 2003
297 kr
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and …
Labor of Life
Selected Plays
Av Hanoch Levin
Häftad, 2003
477 kr
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Israeli playwright and director Hanoch Levin was one of the most original and innovative writers of his generation. Although Levin is familiar within the Israeli cultural context—and despite the steadily growing stream of literary and theatrical research of his oeuvre—there are few resources on his …
Chosen Body
The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society
Av Meira Weiss
Häftad, 2004
331 kr
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This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body. To construct a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect, the author draws upon some twenty years of ethnographic research in …
Rewriting the Jew
Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire
E-bok, 2002
1056 kr
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In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation …
Marc Chagall and His Times
A Documentary Narrative
Inbunden, 2003
1166 kr
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This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses the 98 years of Chagall's life (1887-1985) in Russia, France, the US, as well as Germany and Israel, his deep …
