SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture – serie
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42 produkter
College Bound
The Pursuit of Education in Jewish American Literature, 1896-1944
Av Dan Shiffman
Häftad, 2018
532 kr
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Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.Jewish American immigrants and their children have been stereotyped as exceptional educational achievers, with attendance at prestigious universities leading directly to …
Writing in Witness
A Holocaust Reader
Inbunden, 2018
1324 kr
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A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.Finalist for the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the Anthologies and Collections Category presented by the Jewish Book CouncilSilver Winner for Anthologies, 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Writing in …
Infrahuman
Animality in Modern Jewish Literature
Av Noam Pines
Häftad, 2019
686 kr
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Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.The Infrahuman explores a little-known aspect in major works of Jewish literature from the period preceding World War II, in which Jewish writers in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish employed …
Infrahuman
Animality in Modern Jewish Literature
Av Noam Pines
Inbunden, 2018
1479 kr
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Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.The Infrahuman explores a little-known aspect in major works of Jewish literature from the period preceding World War II, in which Jewish writers in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish employed …
Queer Expectations
A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry
Häftad, 2019
670 kr
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Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, …
Queer Expectations
A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry
Inbunden, 2018
1479 kr
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Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, …
Signatures of Struggle
The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction
Av Oded Nir
Inbunden, 2018
1436 kr
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A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir …
Signatures of Struggle
The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction
Av Oded Nir
Häftad, 2019
686 kr
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A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir …
Full Pomegranate
Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
Häftad, 2018
408 kr
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Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career.Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever (1913–2010) was described by the New York Times as "the greatest poet of the Holocaust." Born in present-day Belarus, Sutzkever spent his childhood as a war refugee in …
New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures
Reading and Teaching
Av Victoria Aarons, Holli Levitsky
Häftad, 2019
745 kr
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Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New directions and new forms of expression have emerged, …
Possessed Voices
Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theater
Häftad, 2020
687 kr
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Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.Finalist for the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual presented by the Association for Jewish Studies Possessed Voices …
Archive of the Catastrophe
The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
Häftad, 2019
502 kr
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Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.Honorable Mention, 2020 Best First Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media StudiesClaude Lanzmann's 1985 magnum opus, Shoah, is a canonical documentary …
Archive of the Catastrophe
The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
Inbunden, 2019
1144 kr
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Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.Honorable Mention, 2020 Best First Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media StudiesClaude Lanzmann's 1985 magnum opus, Shoah, is a canonical documentary …
Struggle for Understanding
Elie Wiesel's Literary Works
Av Victoria Nesfield, Philip Smith
Inbunden, 2019
1479 kr
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An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel's writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected …
Struggle for Understanding
Elie Wiesel's Literary Works
Av Victoria Nesfield, Philip Smith
Häftad, 2020
697 kr
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An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel's writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected …
Off the Derech
Leaving Orthodox Judaism
Häftad, 2020
504 kr
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Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.In recent years, many formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews have documented leaving their communities in published …
Since 1948
Israeli Literature in the Making
Av Nancy E. Berg, Naomi B. Sokoloff
Häftad, 2021
745 kr
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A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple …
Since 1948
Israeli Literature in the Making
Av Nancy E. Berg, Naomi B. Sokoloff
Inbunden, 2020
1447 kr
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A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple …
Michael Gold
The People's Writer
Inbunden, 2020
1365 kr
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An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.Winner of the 2022 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize presented by the Literary Encyclopedia Winner of the 2022 Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award presented by the Peace Corps Worldwide Jewish American …
Michael Gold
The People's Writer
Häftad, 2021
366 kr
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An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.Winner of the 2022 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize presented by the Literary Encyclopedia Winner of the 2022 Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award presented by the Peace Corps Worldwide Jewish American …
Shadows in the City of Light
Paris in Postwar French Jewish Writing
Av Sara R. Horowitz, Amira Bojadzija-Dan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1479 kr
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Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers-Sarah Kofman, Patrick Modiano, …
Shadows in the City of Light
Paris in Postwar French Jewish Writing
Av Sara R. Horowitz, Amira Bojadzija-Dan m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
459 kr
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Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers-Sarah Kofman, Patrick Modiano, …
Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance
Inbunden, 2021
1479 kr
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Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.Yiddish theater was first and foremost fine theater, with varied repertory and actors of high quality. The three stage-ready plays and nine individual scenes collected here, most of …
Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance
Häftad, 2021
392 kr
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Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.Yiddish theater was first and foremost fine theater, with varied repertory and actors of high quality. The three stage-ready plays and nine individual scenes collected here, most of …
Flesh of My Flesh
Sexual Violence in Modern Hebrew Literature
Av Ilana Szobel
Inbunden, 2021
1479 kr
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Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.Finalist for the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies presented by the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia …
Flesh of My Flesh
Sexual Violence in Modern Hebrew Literature
Av Ilana Szobel
Häftad, 2022
532 kr
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Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.Finalist for the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies presented by the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia …
Radical Isaac
I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism
Av Adi Mahalel
Häftad, 2023
437 kr
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Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.Yiddish and Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz (1852–1915) was a major leader of Eastern European Jewry in the years prior to World War I, and was deeply …
Radical Isaac
I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism
Av Adi Mahalel
Inbunden, 2023
1365 kr
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Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.Yiddish and Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz (1852–1915) was a major leader of Eastern European Jewry in the years prior to World War I, and was deeply …
Amos Oz
The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond
Häftad, 2023
535 kr
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Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.The veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939–2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment …
Amos Oz
The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond
Inbunden, 2023
1365 kr
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Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.The veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939–2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment …
