Modern Jewish literatures : intersections and boundaries / edited by Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, and L. Scott Lerner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jelen, Sheila E.

Kramer, Michael P., 1952-

Lerner, L. Scott.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Hebrew literature--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature.

Yiddish literature--History and criticism.

Yiddish literature.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Judaism and literature.

Judaism in literature.

Jews in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 360 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812242720

0812242726

OCLC:

606785087