American Hebraist : essays on Agnon and modern Jewish literature / by Alan Mintz ; edited by Beverly Bailis and David Stern

Author:: Mintz, Alan L.
Uniform Title:: Essays. Selections
Published:: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date:: ©2022.
Physical Description:: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Bailis, Beverly, 1971- and Stern, David, 1949-

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Series:

Dimyonot : Jews and the cultural imagination ; 15

Contents:

American Hebraist : an introduction / David Stern -- Agnon's childhood -- Agnon in Jaffa : the myth of the artist as a young man -- Agnon without end -- In the seas of youth -- On "The sense of smell" by S.Y. Agnon -- Reading Haḥazanim -- Writing about ourselves : Jewish autobiography, modern and premodern -- Ahad Ha-am and the essay : the vicissitudes of reason -- Sefer haʼaggadah : triumph or tragedy? -- Israeli literature in the minds of American readers -- Haim Gouri at 90 -- Viva voce : vicissitudes of the spoken word in Hebrew literature -- Knocking on heaven's gate : Hebrew literature and Wisse's canon; arguing the modern Jewish canon -- Modern Hebrew literature and Jewish theology : repositioning the question -- Hebrew in America : a memoir -- Epilogue : Packing up an office : the work of mourning and the creation of an archive / Beverly Bailis.

Summary:

"A collection of fifteen essays by Alan Mintz (1947-2017) on the Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon, modern Jewish and Israeli literature, and the Holocaust. Includes a critical introduction by David Stern and an epilogue by Beverly Bailis"--

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9780271092386 (hardback)
0271092386

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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