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History and literature : new readings of Jewish texts in honor of Arnold J. Band / edited by William Cutter and David C. Jacobson.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks PN6067 .H57 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Brown Judaic studies ; no. 334.
- Brown Judaic studies ; no. 334
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970.
- Jewish literature--History and criticism.
- Jewish literature.
- Hebrew literature--History and criticism.
- Hebrew literature.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970--Criticism and interpretation.
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef.
- Jews in literature.
- Band, Arnold J.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 506 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, RI : Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University, [2002]
- Contents:
- Two Views of Arnold Band / Ross Shideler, Kathleen Komar xiii
- Reflections on Arnold Band, Scholar, Teacher, Mentor / William Cutter xxi
- Dor Dor Vedorshav: Of Fathers and Sons / Michael A. Signer xxxiii
- Part I Classical Jewish Texts and Modern Interpreters
- Two Literary Talmudic Readings / David M. Gordis 3
- Sefer Ha'aggadah: Triumph or Tragedy? / Alan Mintz 17
- "The Scroll of Fire": An Interpretation / Ezra Spicehandler 27
- Rabbi Nahman's Third Beggar / Joseph Dan 41
- Parallel Worlds: Wissenschaft and Pesaq in the Seridei Esh / David Ellenson 55
- A Third Guide for the Perplexed? Simon Rawidowicz "On Interpretation" / David N. Myers 75
- Part II S. Y. Agnon
- S. Y. Agnon's "From Foe to Friend": Agnon between Berit Shalom and Berit Yosef Trumpeldor / Dan Almagor 91
- Is Tehillah Worthy of Her Praise? / Risa Domb 107
- Religious Ecstasy, Erotic Turmoil, and Christian Innuendoes in S. Y. Agnon's "Haneshiqah Harishonah" ("First Kiss") / Dalia Dromi 117
- Flirtation in S. Y. Agnon's Shira / Nancy Ezer 125
- Reb Nahman Krochmal in Jaffa: A Hallucinatory Vision in S. Y. Agnon's Temol Shilshom / Avraham Holtz 137
- Childish Distortions of Rabbinic Texts in S. Y. Agnon's "Hamitpahat" / David C. Jacobson 147
- What "Dances" in Agnon's "Dance of Death" / Malka Shaked 161
- Agnon from a Medieval Perspective / David Stern 171
- Part III Diaspora
- "The Wealthy Senor Miguel": A Study of a Sephardic Novella / Tamar Alexander 189
- The Imagined Jew: Heinrich Heine's "Prinzessin Sabbath" / Michael A. Meyer 209
- The Way of the "Wail of the Wind": Peretz Smolenskin's Latent, Worthy Ars Poetica / Yair Mazor 223
- Assonance and Its Share in Irony: Comments on Sefer Haqabtsanim / David Patterson 235
- Three Kalikes: A Comparative Study of Mendele, Agnon, and Bashevis / Gershon Shaked 241
- Some Crosscurrents of Linguistic Nationalism: M.Y. Berdyczewski on the Centrality of Hebrew / William Cutter 253
- Bialik's "Tsafririm": Innocence and Experience / Glenda Abramson 265
- Death in a Furnished Room: Rereading Isaac Rosenfeld's Obituaries / Steven J. Zipperstein 279
- Philip Roth, Jewish Identity, and the Satire of Modern Success / Murray Baumgarten 289
- Part IV Zionism, Holocaust, and Israel
- Rachel and the Female Voice: Labor, Gender, and the Zionist Pioneer Vision / Yael Zerubavel 303
- Revising the Past: The Image of the Idyllic "Village" / Gabriella Moscati Steindler 319
- Why Did the River Turn Red? On the Story "Orsha" by Gershon Schofmann / Avner Holtzman 329
- A Prayer of Homecoming by Abraham Sutzkever / Ruth R. Wisse 339
- The Kernel / Aharon Appelfeld 351
- Who Is a Jew? Dan Ben Amotz's Novel To Remember, To Forget / Nurith Gertz 357
- Rereading Dan Pagis's "Abba" / Robert K. Baruch 369
- What Learning Is Most Worth? / Walter Ackerman 379
- Aharon Megged's "Burden" in His Portrayals of the Effects of Israel's Wars / Stanley Nash 389
- Shading the Truth: A. B. Yehoshua's "Facing the Forests" / Gilead Morahg 409
- Political Mothers: Women's Voice and the Binding of Isaac in Israeli Poetry / Ruth Kartun-Blum 419
- Zionist Dreams and Savyon Liebrecht's "A Cow Named Virginia" / Naomi Sokoloff 439
- Between Genesis and Sophocles: Biblical Psychopolitics in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani / Yael S. Feldman 451
- Amichai's Open Closed Open and Now and in Other Days: A Poetic Dialogue / Nili Rachel Scharf Gold 465
- The Frigid Option: A Psychocultural Study of the Novel Love Life by Zeruya Shalev / Yigal Schwartz 479.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1930675135
- OCLC:
- 50123455
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