Jewish writing today : essays, short stories, and poems / edited by Jacob Sonntag.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sonntag, Jacob.

Barney and Eleanor Frommer Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature.

Jews in literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 218 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Vallentine, Mitchell, 1974.

Contents:

Aspects of history. European history as the seedbed of the Holocaust / J.L. Talmon

Thirty years after / Reuben Ainsztein

Germans, Jews, Israelis / Vera Elyashiv

Elegy / Antoni Slonimski.

Aspects of Israel. Israel : vision and reality / Jacob Sonntag

The Arab image in Israeli fiction / J.B. Segal

Second encounter with the angel / Benjamin Tammuz

In memory of Abraham Shlonsky / S.J. Goldsmith

Saul Tchernichovsky / David Patterson.

Aspects of religion. Judaic elements in Tolstoy's teaching / Simon Dubnow

Massada / Yitzhak Lamdan

Some idle thoughts on impending catastrophe / Barnet Litvinoff

Jesus and the Jewish resistance / Hyam Maccoby.

Aspects of literature. Some aspects of Anglo-American Jewish fiction / David Daiches

An old commitment / Dannie Abse

On Anglo-Jewish ethnicity / William Baker, Stephen Tabachnik

The writer : dinosaur or goad? / Renee Winegarten

Isaac Rosenberg among the poets of World War One / A.C. Jacobs

Two poems / Jon Silkin

Heinrich Heine : poet and prophet / F. Hellendall

Walter Benjamin : visionary and victim / Albert H. Friedlander

Medieval synagogue, Toledo / Ewald Osers

The anniversary / Alexander Baron

The wall / Ludwik Askenazy

Yes, but you won't catch me going again / Frederic Raphael

Landscapes / Jeremy Robson

You speak to be / Claude Vigée

O heaven / Osip Mandelstam

A strange son of the valley / Josef Herman

Conversation with a rosy cloud / Yankev Sternberg

A time for dying / Arnold Wesker

The blood of the lamb / Bernice Rubens

A handful of earth / Wolf Mankowitz

Canvas / Ben Goodwin

To arms! / Chaim Bermant

At an anarchist club in Jubilee Street / Emanual Litvinoff

Lament for the European exile / A.L. Strauss

Trouble at the shop / Ray Waterman

Booksellers / A.C. Jacobs

Leaves from a theatre note-book / Charles Landstone

A presence / Anthony Rudolf

Malachi's view of history / Benjamin Tammuz

Encounters / Yitzhak Orpaz

An hour on the beach / Maurice Carr

Jerusalem the golden / Judith Maro.

Aspects of language. The Hebrew concept of 'independence' / Meir Gertner

The paths of prayer / Edouard Roditi

Three poems / Primo Levi

The witness / Miklos Radnoti.

Art inset. Sixteen portrait studies / Josef Herman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Barney and Eleanor Frommer Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0853031819 :

9780853031819

OCLC:

1735714

Publisher Number:

99946471988