Jewish literatures and cultures : context and intertext / edited by Anita Norich and Yaron Z. Eliav.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norich, Anita, 1952-

Eliav, Yaron Z.

Series:

Brown Judaic studies ; no. 349.

Brown Judaic studies ; no. 349

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--20th century--Congresses.

Judaism.

Judaism and culture--Congresses.

Judaism and culture.

Religion and culture--Congresses.

Religion and culture.

Judaism--History--Modern period, 1750---Congresses.

Secularism--Congresses.

Secularism.

Jews--Identity--Congresses.

Jews.

Jewish literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Jewish literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Providence, R.I. : Brown Judaic Studies, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Jewish literatures and cultures : context and intertext / Anita Norich

From continuity to contiguity : thoughts on the theory of Jewish literature / Dan Miron

Beyond influence : toward a new historiographic paradigm / Michael L. Satlow

Hellenistic Judaism : myth or reality? / Gabriele Boccaccini

"He was renowned to the ends of the earth" (1 Maccabees 3:9) : Judaism and Hellenism in 1 Maccabees / Martha Himmelfarb

Roman statues, rabbis, and Greco-Roman culture / Yaron Z. Eliav

The ghetto and Jewish cultural formation in early modern Europe : towards a new interpretation / David Ruderman

Hybrid with what? : the variable contexts of Polish Jewish culture : their implications for Jewish cultural history and Jewish studies / Moshe Rosman

Idols of the cave and theater : a verbal or visual Judaism? / Kalman P. Bland

"Reverse marranism," translatability, and practice of secular Jewish culture in Russian / Gabriella Safran

Intertextuality, Rabbinic literature, and the making of Hebrew modernism / Shachar Pinsker

Brooklyn am Rhein? : the German sources of Jewish-American literature / Julian Levinson

Diaspora and translation : the migrations of Jewish meaning / Naomi Seidman.

Notes:

"Most of the essays ... emerged from a conference held at the University of Michigan's Frankel Center for Judaic Studies"-- Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-930675-63-1

OCLC:

922968010