Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2011

Modern Jewish Literatures

Intersections and Boundaries

Edited by: Sheila E. Jelen , Michael P. Kramer and L. Scott Lerner

In the series Jewish Culture and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204360

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About this book

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 laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world.

Author / Editor information

Sheila E. Jelen teaches English and Jewish studies at the University of Maryland. Michael P. Kramer is Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. L. Scott Lerner is Professor of French and Italian at Franklin and Marshall College.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Study Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer and L. Scott Lerner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Literary Culture and Jewish Space around 1800: The Berlin Salons Revisited Liliane Weissberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Chapter 2. Joseph Salvador’s Jerusalem Lost and Jerusalem Regained L. Scott Lerner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 3. The Merchant at the Threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the Poetics of Apostasy Amelia Glaser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Chapter 4. Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer’s Social Identity Olga Borovaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 5. I. L. Peretz’s ‘‘Between Two Mountains’’: Neo-Hasidism and Jewish Literary Modernity Nicham Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Chapter 6. Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem’s Kasrilevke Stories Marc Caplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 7. Brenner: Between Hebrew and Yiddish Anita Shapira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 8. Eisig Silberschlag and the Persistence of the Erotic in American Hebrew Poetry Alan Mintz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 9. The Art of Sex in Yiddish Poems: Celia Dropkin and Her Contemporaries Kathryn Hellerstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 10. Ethnopoetics in the Works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe Sheila E. Jelen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Chapter 11. Eternal Jews and Dead Dogs: The Diasporic Other in Natan Alterman’s The Seventh Column Gideon Nevo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Chapter 12. Inserted Notes: David Boder’s DP Interview Project and the Languages of the Holocaust Alan Rosen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Chapter 13. Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore Laurence Roth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Chapter 14. The Art of Assimilation: Ironies, Ambiguities, Aesthetics Michael P. Kramer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Chapter 15. Hebraism and Yiddishism: Paradigms of Modern Jewish Literary History Anita Norich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 368
Illustrations
- Other: 9 illus.
Keywords: Jewish Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 6, 2011
ISBN: 9780812204360