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Transferring to America
Jewish Interpretations of American Dreams
Häftad, 1995
487 kr
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Uses recent psychoanalytic theory to analyze the work of three contemporary scholars—Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell, and Sacvan Bercovitch—while viewing their work as expressing Jewish immigrant desires for integration into American culture.This book primarily concerns the work of three prominent …
Voicing the Void
Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction
Häftad, 1997
647 kr
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Explores the connections between muteness and the complicated acts of survival, testimony, memory, and interpretation, through focused readings of Holocaust fiction by Kosinski, Wiesel, Tournier, Ida Fink, and others.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksThrough new close readings of Holocaust …
Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination
A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995
Häftad, 1997
382 kr
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Examines eight Jewish-American writers—Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich—who have "imagined" Israel in their work.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksAnalyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman …
Dreaming the Actual
Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Israeli Women Writers
Häftad, 2000
504 kr
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This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.This book introduces the powerful and provocative new fiction and poetry of Israel's women writers to an English-speaking audience. Read together, the …
Somber Lust
The Art of Amos Oz
Av Yair Mazor
Inbunden, 2002
1196 kr
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A comprehensive study of Israel's most internationally celebrated writer.In Somber Lust, Yair Mazor examines the work of the celebrated Israeli writer Amos Oz. In addition to providing a panoramic, comprehensive study of Oz's work, including his novels, novellas, short stories, and numerous essays …
Joining the Sisterhood
Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives
Häftad, 2003
463 kr
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Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today.Young Jewish women engage in almost every aspect of religious and cultural Jewish life, yet their unique perspectives have remained largely invisible. Through poetry and personal essays, Joining the Sisterhood …
American Talmud
The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction
Av Ezra Cappell
Inbunden, 2007
1601 kr
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Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture.In American Talmud, Ezra Cappell redefines the genre of Jewish American fiction and places it squarely within the larger context of American literature. Cappell departs from the conventional approach of defining …
American Talmud
The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction
Av Ezra Cappell
Häftad, 2008
532 kr
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Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture.In American Talmud, Ezra Cappell redefines the genre of Jewish American fiction and places it squarely within the larger context of American literature. Cappell departs from the conventional approach of defining …
Spiritual Life
Av Merle Feld
Häftad, 2007
394 kr
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Includes new and updated material, as well as a readers' guide with questions for writing and discussion groups.The revised edition of this beloved classic features a readers' and writers' guide to facilitate book group conversations and informal adult education, and also offers prompts for …
Slayers of Moses
The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory
Häftad, 1983
477 kr
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In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures of thought and patterns of organizing reality, clearly distinguishes them from previously reigning Hellenic modes of abstract thought, and connects …
Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Morocco, 1862-1962
Häftad, 1984
502 kr
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The Alliance Israélite Universelle-an international organization representing a community of over 240,000 Jews-was founded in France in 1860. Its goal was to achieve the intellectual regeneration and social and political elevation of the Jewish people. This book examines the impact of the AIU on …
Stories by Meir Blinkin
Av Meir Blinkin
Häftad, 1984
565 kr
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Now available for the first time to the English-speaking public, the captivating short stories of master storyteller Meir Blinkin are the charming prose equivalents of the film Hester Street. These delightful and touching stories also give an authentic account of the Jewish immigrant experience at …
Freud's Dream of Interpretation
Av Ken Frieden
Inbunden, 1990
1080 kr
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Frieden explores methods of dream interpretation in the Bible, the Talmud, and in the writings of Sigmund Freud, and brings to light Freud's troubled relationship to his Judaic forerunners. This book reveals unfamiliar associations in intellectual history and challenges received ideas in biblical, …
Freud's Dream of Interpretation
Av Ken Frieden
Häftad, 1990
383 kr
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Frieden explores methods of dream interpretation in the Bible, the Talmud, and in the writings of Sigmund Freud, and brings to light Freud's troubled relationship to his Judaic forerunners. This book reveals unfamiliar associations in intellectual history and challenges received ideas in biblical, …
Voices of Israel
Essays on and Interviews with Yehuda Amichai, A. B. Yehoshua, T. Carmi, Aharon Appelfeld, and Amos Oz
Av Joseph Cohen
Inbunden, 1990
1250 kr
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Cohen takes an in-depth critical look at three novelists and two poets who stand at the forefront of contemporary Israeli literature, and whose works have been widely read, studied, and admired in the Western world. The critiques examine all English translations of these Israeli writers' major …
They Made Their Souls Anew
Ils Ont Refait Leur Âme
Av André Neher
Inbunden, 1990
1111 kr
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This is an original, philosophical discussion in which André Neher relates the lives of prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jews to traditional Jewish thought on issues of assimilation, the Holocaust, and liberal intellectualism.
Between Exile and Return
S. Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing
Häftad, 1991
462 kr
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This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates Agnon in the context of twentieth-century literature and examines such central issues in Agnon's …
Accidents of Influence
Writing as a Woman and a Jew in America
Av Norma Rosen
Häftad, 1992
405 kr
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For Norma Rosen, the Holocaust is the central event of the twentieth century. In this book, she examines the relationship of post-Holocaust writers to their work in terms of subject, language, imagery, and facing up to the task of writing in a post-Holocaust era. She considers the work of such …
Tradition and Innovation
Reflections on Latin American Jewish Writing
Av Robert DiAntonio, Nora Glickman
Inbunden, 1993
1250 kr
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This book studies the rich repository of Latin American Jewish literature, exploring the issues of vanishing traditions along with the subject of assimilation and acculturation. It places in sharp relief the Jewish contribution to the Latin American literary boom. An important aspect of this study …
Tradition and Innovation
Reflections on Latin American Jewish Writing
Av Robert DiAntonio, Nora Glickman
Häftad, 1993
462 kr
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This book studies the rich repository of Latin American Jewish literature, exploring the issues of vanishing traditions along with the subject of assimilation and acculturation. It places in sharp relief the Jewish contribution to the Latin American literary boom. An important aspect of this study …
Summoning
Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory
Häftad, 1993
401 kr
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This book explores the variety of ways that the Jewish understanding of the Covenant relates to the notion of a contract or a shared grammar as developed in recent structural and post-structural theory. The book enters the debate on the relationship beween a variety of open-ended forms of text …
Classic Yiddish Fiction
Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz
Av Ken Frieden
Inbunden, 1995
1250 kr
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Revisits fiction by the three major Yiddish authors who wrote between 1864 and 1916, exploring their literary and social worlds.Yiddish literature, despite its remarkable achievements during an era bounded by Russian reforms in the 1860s and the First World War, has never before been surveyed by a …
Transferring to America
Jewish Interpretations of American Dreams
Inbunden, 1995
1111 kr
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Uses recent psychoanalytic theory to analyze the work of three contemporary scholars—Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell, and Sacvan Bercovitch—while viewing their work as expressing Jewish immigrant desires for integration into American culture.This book primarily concerns the work of three prominent …
Philip Roth and the Jews
Av Alan Cooper
Häftad, 1996
476 kr
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Examines Philip Roth's use of Jewish ideas and materials in his novels, considering also the responses to Roth's work and his relations with the Jewish community and contemporary Jewish writers.In a style richly accessible to the general reader, this book presents Roth's secular Jewishness, with …
Voicing the Void
Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction
Inbunden, 1997
1278 kr
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Explores the connections between muteness and the complicated acts of survival, testimony, memory, and interpretation, through focused readings of Holocaust fiction by Kosinski, Wiesel, Tournier, Ida Fink, and others.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksThrough new close readings of Holocaust …
Children of Job
American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust
Häftad, 1997
413 kr
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An original contribution to Holocaust studies that demonstrates the theological and psychosocial issues emerging in novels and films by sons and daughters of survivors.Focusing on the novels and films of daughters and sons of Holocaust survivors, this book sheds light on the relationship between …
Girls
Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995
Häftad, 1999
401 kr
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Tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s—the choices they made, and the boundaries within which they made them.This book tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s. Through …
Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations
From "Apples of Gold in Silver Settings" to "Imperial Messages"
Häftad, 1999
462 kr
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Offers a penetrating cross-cultural analysis of the enduring genre of parables, revealing a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way we view the divine.In Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations, Gila Safran Naveh carefully charts the historical transformation of these …
Dreaming the Actual
Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Israeli Women Writers
Inbunden, 2000
1111 kr
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This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.This book introduces the powerful and provocative new fiction and poetry of Israel's women writers to an English-speaking audience. Read together, the …
Living Root
A Memoir
Häftad, 2001
314 kr
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In this literary memoir, poet and essayist Michael Heller interweaves family and personal history with reflections on language, poetry, religion, and memory itself.Living Root is the story of an education, a writer's wandering through personal and family history, through texts and traditions. …
