Modern Jewish literatures : intersections and boundaries / edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, and L. Scott Lerner
- Published:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2011
- Physical Description:
- viii, 360 pages ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Jelen, Sheila E.
Kramer, Michael P., 1952-
Lerner, L. Scott
- Series:
- Jewish culture and contexts
- Contents:
- Preface / David B. Ruderman -- Introduction: intersections and boundaries in modern Jewish literary study / Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, L. Scott Lerner -- Literary culture and Jewish space around 1800: the Berlin salons revisited / Liliane Weissberg -- Joseph Salvador's Jerusalem lost and Jerusalem regained / L. Scott Lerner -- The merchant at the threshold: Rashel Khin, Osip Mandelstam, and the poetics of apostasy / Amelia Glaser -- Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lé́vy between Ladino and French: reconstructing a writer's social identity / Olga Borovaya -- I. L. Peretz's "Between two mountains": neo-Hasidism and Jewish literary modernity / Nicham Ross -- Neither here nor there: the critique of ideological progress in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke stories / Marc Caplan -- Brenner: between Hebrew and Yiddish / Anita Shapira -- Eisig Silberschlag and the persistence of the erotic in American Hebrew poetry / Alan Mintz -- The art of sex in Yiddish poems: Celia Dropkin and her contemporaries / Kathryn Hellerstein -- Ethnopoetics in the works of Malkah Shapiro and Ita Kalish: gender, popular ethnography, and the literary face of Jewish Eastern Europe / Sheila E. Jelen -- Eternal Jews and dead dogs: the diasporic other in Natan Alterman's The seventh column / Gideon Nevo -- Inserted notes: David Boder's DP interview project and the languages of the Holocaust / Alan Rosen -- Unpacking my father's bookstore / Laurence Roth -- The art of assimilation: ironies, ambiguities, aesthetics / Michael P. Kramer -- Hebraism and Yiddishism: paradigms of modern Jewish literary history / Anita Norich.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780812242720 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812242726 (hardcover : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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