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37 produkter
Utter Chaos
E-bok, 2016
116 kr
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Published in Germany in 1920, Sammy Gronemann's satirical novel set in 1903 at the time of the Sixth Zionist Congress follows the life of a baptized Jew, Heinz Lehnsen, as he negotiates legal entanglements, German culture, religious differences, and Zionist aspirations. A chance encounter with a …
Elie Wiesel
Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives
Inbunden, 2013
398 kr
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Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and experience. In this volume, leading scholars in the fields of Biblical, Rabbinic, …
Subject of Holocaust Fiction
Inbunden, 2015
1038 kr
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Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical …
Subject of Holocaust Fiction
Häftad, 2015
394 kr
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Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical …
Utter Chaos
Inbunden, 2016
983 kr
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Published in Germany in 1920, Sammy Gronemann's satirical novel set in 1903 at the time of the Sixth Zionist Congress follows the life of a baptized Jew, Heinz Lehnsen, as he negotiates legal entanglements, German culture, religious differences, and Zionist aspirations. A chance encounter with a …
Utter Chaos
Häftad, 2016
447 kr
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Published in Germany in 1920, Sammy Gronemann's satirical novel set in 1903 at the time of the Sixth Zionist Congress follows the life of a baptized Jew, Heinz Lehnsen, as he negotiates legal entanglements, German culture, religious differences, and Zionist aspirations. A chance encounter with a …
Using and Abusing the Holocaust
E-bok, 2006
104 kr
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"Langer, by the force of scholarship and literary precision rather than dogmatic affirmation and pathos, is one of the few writers, with the exception of significant poets and novelists, who unsettles both our customary language and conceptual instruments. His book is a moral as well as an …
German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife
A Tenuous Legacy
Av Vivian Liska
Inbunden, 2016
1038 kr
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In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife, Vivian Liska innovatively focuses on the changing form, fate and function of messianism, law, exile, election, remembrance, and the transmission of tradition itself in three different temporal and intellectual frameworks: German-Jewish modernism, …
German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife
A Tenuous Legacy
Av Vivian Liska
Häftad, 2016
378 kr
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In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife, Vivian Liska innovatively focuses on the changing form, fate and function of messianism, law, exile, election, remembrance, and the transmission of tradition itself in three different temporal and intellectual frameworks: German-Jewish modernism, …
Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2019
1167 kr
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In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being reconceived as responses to culture and …
Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture
Häftad, 2019
507 kr
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In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being reconceived as responses to culture and …
Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture
E-bok, 2019
216 kr
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In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being reconceived as responses to culture and …
Holocaust's Jewish Calendars
Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy
Av Alan Rosen
Inbunden, 2019
903 kr
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Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars …
Holocaust's Jewish Calendars
Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy
Av Alan Rosen
Häftad, 2019
385 kr
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Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars …
Hebrew Gothic
History and the Poetics of Persecution
Inbunden, 2019
1102 kr
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Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The ghosts of a murdered Talmud scholar and his kidnapped bride rise from their graves for a nocturnal dance …
Hebrew Gothic
History and the Poetics of Persecution
Häftad, 2019
429 kr
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Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The ghosts of a murdered Talmud scholar and his kidnapped bride rise from their graves for a nocturnal dance …
Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps
An Intercontexual Reading
Av Leona Toker
Inbunden, 2019
1167 kr
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Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker's book shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker views these narratives and texts against the background of historical …
Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps
An Intercontexual Reading
Av Leona Toker
Häftad, 2019
507 kr
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Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker's book shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker views these narratives and texts against the background of historical …
Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust
Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation
Av Emma Young
Häftad, 1988
300 kr
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". . . a fresh critical model for students of Holocaust literature and historiography . . . " —B'nai B'rith Messenger"This is the first and most sophisticated attempt I have come across to apply modern literary theory to Holocaust material, and the act of mediation which it involves is worthy of …
Thinking About the Holocaust
After Half a Century
Av Alvin H Rosenfeld, Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Häftad, 1997
313 kr
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" . . . stimulating and important anthology . . ." —Holocaust and Genocide Studies" . . . a useful and competent volume that can serve as a good introduction to scholarship on the aftermath of the Holocaust." —Times Literary SupplementMore than 50 years after the end of World War II, how do we look …
Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy
Häftad, 2004
304 kr
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Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy is the first systematic attempt to interpret the Jewish philosophical tradition in light of feminist philosophy and to engage feminist philosophy from the perspective of Jewish philosophy. Written by Jewish women who are trained in philosophy, the 13 original …
Post-Holocaust
Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History
Av Berel Lang
Häftad, 2005
247 kr
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"These essays are extremely well written, with the clarity and accessibility that one has come to expect from Berel Lang, one of the most respected and significant philosophers writing about the Holocaust and its impact." —Michael L. MorganIn these trenchant essays, philosopher Berel Lang examines …
Poetry After Auschwitz
Remembering What One Never Knew
Av Susan Gubar
Häftad, 2006
398 kr
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In this pathbreaking study, Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. From the 1960s to the present, as the Shoah receded into a more remote European past, many contemporary writers …
Moscow State Yiddish Theater
Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage
Häftad, 2006
313 kr
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"Jeffrey Veidlinger relates a fascinating and little-known piece of history. . . . [He] distills a remarkable amount of research into a pithy, well-turned account that will interest readers of cultural and political history." —Publishers WeeklyDrawing from newly available archives, Jeffrey …
Writer Uprooted
Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature
Häftad, 2008
346 kr
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The Writer Uprooted is the first book to examine the emergence of a new generation of Jewish immigrant authors in America, most of whom grew up in formerly communist countries. In essays that are both personal and scholarly, the contributors to this collection chronicle and clarify issues of …
Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art
From Levity to Liturgy
Inbunden, 1994
398 kr
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"Cohen has succeeded in showing a fusion of Ozick's writing as sacred and comic. Defining humor broadly, Cohen persuasively argues that levity and liturgy are natural companions, enriching each other, especially in the creative imagination of Cynthia Ozick." —Midstream" . . . a thoughtful …
Theodor Herzl
From Assimilation to Zionism
Inbunden, 1993
313 kr
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"An original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstood figure. A great book." —Bernard Avishai"Excellent . . . a highly revealing portrait that demolishes Herzl-the-icon." —Michael Marrus"Other biographers . . . have illuminated aspects of [Herzl's] life, but none has been able to produce …
Rational Rabbis
Science and Talmudic Culture
Inbunden, 1997
445 kr
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" . . . a fascinating and thought-provoking book . . . " —The Jewish Quarterly"The best introduction to the talmudic literature that is available. . . . An extraordinarily important book, brilliant, and lucid." —Daniel Boyarin"Menachem Fisch has written a rich, thoughtful book. One will come away …
Irving Howe—Socialist, Critic, Jew
Inbunden, 1998
427 kr
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" . . . scrupulous, fair-minded and richly-detailed study . . . the book charts one of the most remarkable intellectual careers of the 20th century's latter half. . . . What is most heartening about Mr. Alexander's biography is its exemplary civility and nuance in discussing ideas across the lines …
In the Footsteps of Orpheus
The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti
Inbunden, 2001
487 kr
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In the Footsteps of OrpheusThe Life and Times of Miklós RadnótiZsuzsanna OzsváthA powerful account of the life, art, and tragic death of a 20th-century Hungarian Jewish poet."Zsuzsanna Ozsváth bring[s] forth Radnóti's life, his thought, and his passion with a depth of insight that is rare in a …
