Arguing the modern Jewish canon : essays on literature and culture in honor of Ruth R. Wisse / edited by Justin Cammy ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cammy, Justin Daniel.

Wisse, Ruth R.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Literature, Modern--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Hebrew literature--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature.

Hebrew language.

Yiddish language.

Judaism and literature.

Canon (Literature).

Jews in literature.

Literature, Modern--Jewish authors.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

ix, 721 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Ruth R. Wisse is a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. In this celebratory volume, Wisse's colleagues pay tribute to her with a collection of critical essays whose subjects break new ground in Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust literature. Inspired by her award-winning book, The Modern Jewish Canon, Wisse's fellow scholars take up many questions raised by her definition of Jewish canonicity, while offering new readings of such disparate writers as George Eliot, Isaac Babel, J. D. Salinger, S. Y. Agnon, Philip Roth, and many others.

Contents:

Writing Jewish / Hillel Halkin

Knocking on heaven's gate : Hebrew literature and Wisse's canon / Alan Mintz

Holocaust literature : foreshadowings and shadowings / David Aberbach

Of Jews and canons : further thoughts / Ilan Stavans

A Jewish artistic canon / Ezra Mendelsohn

Judging The judgment of Shomer : Jewish literature versus Jewish reading / Justin Cammy

The judgment of Shomer or the jury trial of all of Shomer's novels / Sholem Aleichem ; translated and annotated by Justin Cammy

Daniel Deronda : "the Zionist fate in English hands" and the liberal betrayal of the Jews / Edward Alexander

The pleasure of disregarding red lights : a reading of Sholem Aleichem's monologue "A Nisref" / Dan Miron

The Hershele Maze : Isaac Babel and his ghost reader / Sasha Senderovich

The open suitcases : Yankev Glatshteyn's Ven yash iz gekumen / Avraham Novershtern

Seductions and disputations : pseudo-dialogues in the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Miriam Udel-Lambert

Gimpel the Simple and on reading from right to left / David G. Roskies

Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Androgynous" / Susanne Klingenstein

Building bridges destined to fall : biological and literary paternity in Appelfeld's The ice mine / Philip Hollander

Life/writing : Aharon Appelfeld's autobiographical work and the modern Jewish canon / Naomi B. Sokoloff

Henry Roth, Hebrew, and the unspeakable / Hana Wirth-Nesher

The modern hero as schlemiel : the Swede in Philip Roth's American pastoral / Michael Kimmage

Innovation by translation : Yiddish and Hasidic Hebrew in literary history / Ken Frieden

Creating Yiddish dialogue for the "first modern Yiddish comedy" / Marion Aptroot

The smoke of civilization : the dialectic of enlightenment in Sh. Y. Abramovitsh's Di klyatshe / Marc Caplan

Yiddish canon consciousness and the dionysiac spirit of music / Jed Wyrick

Joyce's Yiddish : modernism, translation, and the Jews / Rachel Rubinstein

The transmission of poetic anger : an unexploded shell in the Jewish canon / Janet Hadda

Guilt, mourning, idol worship, and golem writing : the symptoms of a Jewish literary canon / Emily Miller Budick

What's so funny about the Yiddish theater? : comedy and the origins of Yiddish drama / Jeremy Dauber

Naked truths : Avraham Goldfaden's The fanatic or the two kuni-lemls / Alyssa Quint

Memory as metaphor : Meir Wiener's novel Kolev ashkenazi as critique of the Jewish historical imagination / Mikhail Krutikov

Shmuel Nadler's Besht-Simfonye : at the limits of orthodox literature / Beatrice Lang Caplan

Chava Rosenfarb and The tree of life / Goldie Morgentaler

Fiddles on willow trees : the missing Polish link in the Jewish canon / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

The Kvetcher in the rye : J.D. Salinger and challenges to the modern Jewish canon / Leah garrett

Israeli identity in a post-Zionist age / Yaron Peleg

Bellow's canon / Jonathan Rosen

The Eicha problem / Dara Horn

The great explainer / Cynthia Ozick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Ruth R. Wisse bibliography": pages 707-715.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780674025851

0674025857

OCLC:

182621478